Ruby Contracts in the Midlands

Ruby
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 128 147
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 +46
Contract jobs citing Ruby 7 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.18% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 0.81% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 16
10th Percentile £403 £623 £525
25th Percentile £406 £865 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £999 £700
Median % change year-on-year -54.95% +42.71% +36.59%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the Midlands

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the Midlands

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the Midlands

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the Midlands

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +17 7 £450 -54.95% 22
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Axis
2 2 (28.57%) Blazor
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) CCTV
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) SOA
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) API Development
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) OOP
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On