Ruby Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Ruby
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ruby skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 308 338
Rank change year-on-year -90 +30 +23
Contract jobs citing Ruby 39 32 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.71% 0.86% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 26 37
10th Percentile £413 £357 £413
25th Percentile £450 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -10.00% -18.03%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £634
90th Percentile £650 £550 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,500 3,733 4,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.49% 28.85% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,490 2,463 3,224
10th Percentile £326 £325 £314
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £571 £574 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 187 410
10th Percentile £45.13 £24.00 £37.96
25th Percentile £56.31 £44.76 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.45 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ruby relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Ruby job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ruby

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ruby.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ruby

Ruby
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2026. 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 of England -69 21 £525 +7.47% 13
Yorkshire -50 14 £515 +39.57% 1
Wales -4 10 £425 - 1
North West -41 7 £650 +30.00% 10
South West -21 3 £693 +62.94% 2
East of England -28 3 - - 3
Scotland - 2 £292 - 1
North East - 2 £450 - 2
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.56%) CMS
1 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) AWS
2 9 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (17.95%) Serverless
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.82%) Azure
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (2.56%) GCP
8 1 (2.56%) Heroku
8 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) DNS
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) DHCP
3 1 (2.56%) InfiniBand
3 1 (2.56%) LAN
3 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.56%) VLAN
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) WAN
3 1 (2.56%) Wireless
3 1 (2.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.13%) Data Vault
2 2 (5.13%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Cucumber
2 5 (12.82%) Git
3 4 (10.26%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.13%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.56%) JIRA
6 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (20.51%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
2 11 (28.21%) Lead
3 10 (25.64%) Ruby Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Designer
7 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Designer
7 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.13%) UI Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Ruby on Rails
2 9 (23.08%) YAML
3 5 (12.82%) Next.js
3 5 (12.82%) Node.js
4 2 (5.13%) AWS CDK
4 2 (5.13%) Nunjucks
4 2 (5.13%) Playwright
4 2 (5.13%) Spring
4 2 (5.13%) Web Services
5 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Grid Computing
2 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Linux
2 8 (20.51%) CentOS
2 8 (20.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (20.51%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 13 (33.33%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (20.51%) ITSM
5 8 (20.51%) RBAC
6 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.38%) Agile
7 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (10.26%) TDD
10 3 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
10 3 (7.69%) Microservices
10 3 (7.69%) Migration
10 3 (7.69%) Observability
11 2 (5.13%) Auto-Scaling
11 2 (5.13%) Cloud Security
11 2 (5.13%) Cost Management
11 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) Perl
3 9 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 6 (15.38%) Java
5 3 (7.69%) Bash
5 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.69%) SQL
6 2 (5.13%) Go
7 1 (2.56%) C++
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (20.51%) RHCE
4 4 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) GPFS
3 1 (2.56%) Lustre
3 1 (2.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) Terraform
2 10 (25.64%) Ansible
2 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 9 (23.08%) Puppet
4 3 (7.69%) Kibana
5 1 (2.56%) Consul
5 1 (2.56%) Grafana
5 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Red Hat
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) PagerDuty
2 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) Arista
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk