Ruby Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Ruby
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 150 155
Rank change year-on-year -40 +5 -17
Contract jobs citing Ruby 14 12 32
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.30% 0.34% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.04% 1.34% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 24
10th Percentile £370 £324 £513
25th Percentile £376 £331 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £400 £582
Median % change year-on-year +36.88% -31.27% +5.82%
75th Percentile £647 £563 £586
90th Percentile £650 £640 £622
England median daily rate £611 £600 £580
% change year-on-year +1.88% +3.45% -3.33%

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 1,348 895 1,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.08% 24.99% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 582 869
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £383 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £487
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -2.46% -7.24%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £575
90th Percentile £626 £650 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 51
10th Percentile £40.25 £34.10 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.84 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +6.11% +11.28%
75th Percentile £73.20 £81.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £74.26 £97.99 £66.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ruby relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Ruby job vacancy trend in the North of England

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ruby

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 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the North of England

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ruby.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ruby

Ruby
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 15 December 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 -21 11 £625 +75.56% 29
North East - 2 £545 - 2
Yorkshire -43 1 £550 -4.35% 29
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (28.57%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (21.43%) Gradle
3 3 (21.43%) Xcode
4 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 2 (14.29%) GitLab
4 2 (14.29%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) Postman
4 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) iOS Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Android Developer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Ruby Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) Node.js
2 2 (14.29%) Playwright
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Android
2 3 (21.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (21.43%) BDD
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (21.43%) Front End Development
5 3 (21.43%) Mobile Development
5 3 (21.43%) TDD
5 3 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
5 3 (21.43%) User Experience
5 3 (21.43%) UX Design
6 2 (14.29%) Kanban
6 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) C
3 3 (21.43%) C++
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) Kotlin
3 3 (21.43%) Objective-C
3 3 (21.43%) Scala
3 3 (21.43%) Swift
4 2 (14.29%) Perl
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle