Ruby Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Ruby
Wales > South Wales

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ruby 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.39% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £440 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £544 - -
Wales median daily rate £475 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% -

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 89 92 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.65% 24.80% 28.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 53 79
10th Percentile £257 £162 £204
25th Percentile £367 £210 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -19.05%
75th Percentile £527 £544 £557
90th Percentile £634 £570 £675
Wales median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 8
10th Percentile £25.70 £16.19 £24.13
25th Percentile - £20.12 £25.84
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -60.52% +184.72%
75th Percentile £33.75 £22.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £64.50 £26.25 -
Wales median hourly rate £30.25 £20.24 £51.25
% change year-on-year +49.49% -60.52% +184.72%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in South Wales

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Ruby

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 6 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
Cardiff - 5 £509 - 3
Ruby
Wales

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 5 (100.00%) GitHub
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
4 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft