Ruby on Rails Contract Job Trends in the South West

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £648 - -
25th Percentile £649 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 334 416 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.57% 18.79% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 240 382
10th Percentile £350 £383 £325
25th Percentile £419 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £720
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 26 44
10th Percentile £61.80 £61.88 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.40 £74.00 £75.60
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Ruby on Rails job vacancy trend in the South West

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ruby on Rails.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bristol - 3 £650 - 2
Ruby on Rails
England

Ruby on Rails
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Argo
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat