Ruby on Rails Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Ruby on Rails skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 435 469
Rank change year-on-year +42 +34 -72
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 13 28 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.61% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 31
10th Percentile £350 £416 £400
25th Percentile £425 £522 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +27.27% +29.41%
75th Percentile £525 - £650
90th Percentile £999 - £725
UK median daily rate £481 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -13.62% +1.14% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,295 4,565 6,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.51% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,179 3,409 4,553
10th Percentile £324 £350 £357
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 92 155
10th Percentile £20.77 £22.26 £20.00
25th Percentile £39.96 £48.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ruby on Rails as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
North West +34 5 £350 -33.33% 2
North of England +21 5 £350 -50.00% 2
South East +23 3 £450 -18.18% 4
Midlands +23 3 £999 +42.71% 3
West Midlands +16 3 £999 +42.71% 3
Wales - 2 £488 -
Ruby on Rails
UK

Ruby on Rails
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 6 (46.15%) Ruby Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Lead
4 3 (23.08%) Team Leader
5 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Full Stack Development
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Defect Management
4 2 (15.38%) B2C
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes