Ruby Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ruby
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 343 370
Rank change year-on-year +26 +27 +26
Contract jobs citing Ruby 40 49 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 0.98% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 36 56
10th Percentile £360 £430 £408
25th Percentile £406 £463 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £623 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.69% -0.40% +7.76%
75th Percentile £511 £675 £700
90th Percentile £550 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +3.00%

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 4,034 4,982 6,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.24% 23.55% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,653 3,271 4,392
10th Percentile £313 £322 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £582 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 446 332
10th Percentile £27.99 £37.50 £26.79
25th Percentile £44.76 £52.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile £68.25 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.96 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

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 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

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 4 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
North of England +15 18 £485 +4.86% 190
North West +12 13 £500 +14.29% 118
Wales +11 8 £475 -2.56% 25
South East +40 7 £450 -10.00% 181
West Midlands +12 5 £450 -54.95% 44
Midlands +8 5 £450 -54.95% 82
Yorkshire +4 5 £369 -38.50% 67
East of England +24 2 - - 91
South West +25 1 £425 -34.62% 86
Scotland -9 1 - - 52
Ruby
UK

Ruby
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 4 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (7.50%) GitHub
2 3 (7.50%) Serverless
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) MySQL
2 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) DB2
4 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Git
2 9 (22.50%) Cucumber
3 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.00%) Gradle
4 4 (10.00%) JIRA
4 4 (10.00%) Xcode
5 3 (7.50%) Vagrant
5 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio
6 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.50%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.50%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (2.50%) Capybara
7 1 (2.50%) GitLab
7 1 (2.50%) Metasploit
7 1 (2.50%) Selenium
7 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Banking
2 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Ruby Developer
3 4 (10.00%) iOS Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Applications Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Ruby Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Senior
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (5.00%) Tester
5 1 (2.50%) Database Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Java Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (2.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
3 6 (15.00%) CSS
3 6 (15.00%) HTML
3 6 (15.00%) Spring
4 5 (12.50%) React
5 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.50%) Apache Axis
6 3 (7.50%) Gherkin
7 2 (5.00%) .NET
7 2 (5.00%) Node.js
7 2 (5.00%) RESTful
7 2 (5.00%) Vue
8 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.50%) JSON
8 1 (2.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (10.00%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) CCTV
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) IoT
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Windows
3 4 (10.00%) Android
3 4 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Agile
2 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.50%) Front End Development
4 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.00%) TDD
5 5 (12.50%) DevOps
5 5 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (10.00%) BDD
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (10.00%) iOS Development
6 4 (10.00%) Microservices
6 4 (10.00%) Mobile Development
6 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.00%) Scrum
6 4 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (10.00%) Unit Testing
6 4 (10.00%) User Experience
6 4 (10.00%) UX Design
7 3 (7.50%) Design Patterns
7 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Python
2 12 (30.00%) Java
3 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (12.50%) C
5 5 (12.50%) C++
5 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 5 (12.50%) SQL
6 4 (10.00%) Kotlin
6 4 (10.00%) Objective-C
6 4 (10.00%) Scala
6 4 (10.00%) Swift
7 3 (7.50%) C#
8 2 (5.00%) PHP
9 1 (2.50%) Bash
9 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) RHCE
3 3 (7.50%) CISSP
3 3 (7.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) GPEN
4 1 (2.50%) GWAPT
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.50%) OSCE
4 1 (2.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) VirtualBox
4 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) Puppet
3 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
3 3 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.50%) Kibana
4 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Red Hat
2 5 (12.50%) Splunk
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.50%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Imperva