Ruby Contracts in the North of England

Ruby
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 167 170
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 +21
Contract jobs citing Ruby 18 16 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.53% 0.33% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.89% 1.29% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 32
10th Percentile £356 £400 £326
25th Percentile £367 £413 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -28.00% -
75th Percentile £520 £488 £700
90th Percentile £550 £570 -
England median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 950 1,241 1,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.05% 25.82% 28.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 859 1,122
10th Percentile £340 £320 £356
25th Percentile £391 £401 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £606 £625 £695
England median daily rate £524 £540 £563
% change year-on-year -3.06% -4.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 54 25
10th Percentile £31.70 £37.55 £28.26
25th Percentile £52.00 £42.41 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.60% +0.53% +6.31%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £95.71 £73.90 £65.90
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +19.05%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the North of England

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the North of England

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the North of England

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
North West +13 13 £500 +11.11% 113
Yorkshire +10 5 £369 -38.50% 23
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) DB2
3 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) Gradle
3 4 (22.22%) Xcode
4 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 3 (16.67%) JIRA
4 3 (16.67%) Vagrant
4 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.56%) Selenium
5 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) iOS Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Database Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) CSS
1 6 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (16.67%) Gherkin
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 2 (11.11%) React
3 2 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (5.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Android
3 4 (22.22%) Apple iOS
4 2 (11.11%) Windows
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (27.78%) TDD
3 4 (22.22%) BDD
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 4 (22.22%) iOS Development
3 4 (22.22%) Mobile Development
3 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 4 (22.22%) Scrum
3 4 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 4 (22.22%) User Experience
3 4 (22.22%) UX Design
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (11.11%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) Shell Script
4 4 (22.22%) C
4 4 (22.22%) C++
4 4 (22.22%) Kotlin
4 4 (22.22%) Objective-C
4 4 (22.22%) Scala
4 4 (22.22%) Swift
5 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (11.11%) PHP
7 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) RHCE
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) VirtualBox
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) Puppet
2 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Imperva
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft