Ruby Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Ruby
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 127 138
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +41
Contract jobs citing Ruby 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.093% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.44% 0.38% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £474 £423
25th Percentile £450 £491 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £525 £591 £494
90th Percentile £540 £611 £498
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £509
% change year-on-year -6.98% +5.70% +1.70%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 450 521 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.00% 24.23% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 338 443
10th Percentile £350 £375 £325
25th Percentile £406 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £559 £638 £617
90th Percentile £612 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 10
10th Percentile £24.38 £35.58 £32.32
25th Percentile £32.81 £55.87 £36.34
Median hourly rate £47.25 £58.49 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +20.85% -24.88%
75th Percentile £61.31 £72.28 £53.35
90th Percentile £69.53 £87.50 £59.48
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +21.85% -12.12%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Ruby job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ruby

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ruby.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ruby

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Oxfordshire - 2 £475 - 2
Ruby
South East

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL