Ruby Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Ruby
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ruby 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.86% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 - -
75th Percentile £568 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £498 - -

All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 127 78 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 27.19% 35.14% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 58 28
10th Percentile £350 £325 £359
25th Percentile £400 £359 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £423 £465
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -9.04% -17.79%
75th Percentile £559 £490 £508
90th Percentile £596 £598 £565
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £420 £452
% change year-on-year +13.10% -7.08% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 9
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.81% +9.47% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £67.50 £52.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +29.81% +9.47% -

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ruby relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Ruby job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Ruby

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Kanban
1 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft