Ruby Contracts in the South West

Ruby
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 156 163
Rank change year-on-year +47 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Ruby 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.031% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 0.16% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £448 - £543
25th Percentile £500 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £700 - £663
90th Percentile £753 - £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 449 625 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.76% 19.54% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 421 759
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 91 97
10th Percentile £61.30 £46.39 £49.87
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.13 £57.33
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.00 £75.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the South West

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the South West

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the South West

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the South West

Ruby
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol - 2 £600 - 8
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Aviation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCITP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat