Ruby Contracts in the North West

Ruby
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Ruby skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 106 148
Rank change year-on-year -12 +42 -30
Contract jobs citing Ruby 20 55 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.73% 1.71% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.93% 5.89% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 43 30
10th Percentile £369 £325 £519
25th Percentile £422 £419 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -4.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £582 £650 £650
90th Percentile - £680 £700
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.22%

All Programming Languages
North West

Ruby is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 683 934 1,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.85% 28.97% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 715 1,075
10th Percentile £325 £325 £324
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £588
90th Percentile £610 £656 £663
England median daily rate £540 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 32
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.74 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £36.40 £19.66
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -3.36% +23.53%
75th Percentile £69.53 £50.87 £54.38
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.01 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the North West

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the North West

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the North West

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Cheshire -4 8 £582 +78.53% 1
Manchester -5 7 £450 -30.77% 5
Lancashire +9 3 - -
Merseyside - 2 £350 - 1
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (10.00%) nginx
1 2 (10.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) DSL
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) JIRA
3 5 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
1 7 (35.00%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Build Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (10.00%) cloud-init
3 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Public Cloud
1 8 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 8 (40.00%) Unix
2 8 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) CentOS
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Server Building
3 7 (35.00%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (35.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) B2C
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
6 2 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
2 2 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Ansible
2 9 (45.00%) Puppet
3 8 (40.00%) PowerBroker
3 8 (40.00%) Progress Chef
4 7 (35.00%) CFEngine
5 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 5 (25.00%) Terraform
6 2 (10.00%) Consul
6 2 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (10.00%) Graphite
6 2 (10.00%) HAProxy
6 2 (10.00%) Istio
6 2 (10.00%) linkerd
6 2 (10.00%) Packer
6 2 (10.00%) Podman
6 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.00%) PagerDuty
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) VMware