Ruby on Rails Contracts in the South East

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 196 209
Rank change year-on-year +42 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.068% 0.054% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.41% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile - £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% -31.25%
75th Percentile - £475 £625
90th Percentile - - £670
England median daily rate £458 £486 £525
% change year-on-year -5.86% -7.43% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Ruby on Rails falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 508 733 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.39% 13.12% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 482 680
10th Percentile £345 £313 £361
25th Percentile £413 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £624 £625
90th Percentile £661 £661 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 42 36
10th Percentile £20.09 £35.18 £50.63
25th Percentile £35.91 £56.65 £55.00
Median hourly rate £54.94 £61.60 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% -8.74% +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.09 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.09 £74.88 £79.72
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Ruby on Rails as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails in the South East

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the South East

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the South East

Ruby on Rails
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Thames Valley +34 1 £450 - 83
Hampshire - 1 - - 37
Oxfordshire - 1 £450 - 14
Ruby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (50.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian