Ruby Contract Job Trends in the South West

Ruby
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 112 146
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 -1
Contract jobs citing Ruby 4 22 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.86% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 3.33% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £509 £598 £448
25th Percentile £599 £613 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 £650 £466
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% +39.48% -30.96%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £619
90th Percentile - £730 £738
England median daily rate £520 £575 £586
% change year-on-year -9.61% -1.79% -2.42%

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 433 660 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 21.94% 25.89% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 373 650
10th Percentile £313 £375 £363
25th Percentile £401 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £656
90th Percentile £650 £685 £715
England median daily rate £515 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.16% -1.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 83 73
10th Percentile £61.35 £61.50 £48.32
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £60.76
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £71.25 - £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +3.17% +5.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the South West

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the South West over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the South West

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ruby.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Ruby

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 3 October 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 - 1
Somerset - 1 £450 - 2
Ruby
England

Ruby
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Argo
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat