Ruby on Rails Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 384 417
Rank change year-on-year +43 +33 +67
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 14 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.025% 0.087%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 0.15% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 13
10th Percentile - £466 £418
25th Percentile £450 £472 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -36.62% +7.07% +27.27%
75th Percentile £488 £999 -
90th Percentile £544 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £486 £525
% change year-on-year -2.26% -7.43% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,756 3,283 4,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.39% 16.16% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,875 2,153 2,984
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £630 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £511 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.08% -2.18% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 94
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £59.52
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -2.04% +8.21%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.91 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -12.70% +16.13%

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
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 19 July 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
Wales +12 9 £475 -2.56% 3
South East - 3 £450 - 2
North West - 2 £500 - 1
North of England - 2 £500 - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Ruby Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Ruby Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Spring
1 8 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) React
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Front End Development
2 2 (14.29%) API Development
2 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 2 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (7.14%) Agile
3 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
3 1 (7.14%) CRM
3 1 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) TDD
3 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Atlassian