Ruby Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Ruby
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 103 137
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 +20
Contract jobs citing Ruby 7 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.44% 0.63% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.97% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £294 £181 £604
25th Percentile £310 £272 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £425 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% -39.29% +68.67%
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile £375 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £582
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.09% -3.00%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 593 559 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.23% 32.00% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 311 468
10th Percentile £338 £356 £379
25th Percentile £410 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 10
10th Percentile £52.50 £17.99 £49.13
25th Percentile £53.75 - £54.65
Median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £59.52
Median % change year-on-year +212.53% -67.08% +13.99%
75th Percentile £72.50 £48.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £64.20 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £64.63 £63.00 £60.14
% change year-on-year +2.59% +4.76% -0.60%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in Scotland

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Ruby

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in Scotland

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Glasgow +4 6 £358 +27.29% 1
Aberdeen -10 1 £270 -50.91% 5
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (85.71%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon MSK
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (85.71%) Serverless
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Bitbucket
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
1 6 (85.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (57.14%) GitLab
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Perl
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Arista
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto