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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 301 340
Rank change year-on-year -85 +39 +18
Contract jobs citing Ruby 45 32 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 0.87% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 38
10th Percentile £358 £357 £413
25th Percentile £419 £391 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% -14.29% -14.63%
75th Percentile £568 £520 £634
90th Percentile £650 £558 £691
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 5,465 3,658 4,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.79% 28.65% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,484 2,420 3,250
10th Percentile £326 £325 £317
25th Percentile £405 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £571 £575 £585
90th Percentile £640 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 191 401
10th Percentile £46.25 £22.48 £37.63
25th Percentile £56.25 £42.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% +1.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.40 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +1.73%

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 4 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 4 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 -53 22 £537 +10.72% 11
Wales -3 12 £433 +1.76% 1
Yorkshire -40 12 £513 +38.96% 1
North West -38 8 £650 +30.00% 8
Scotland -4 5 £320 -14.67% 2
North East - 4 £498 - 2
South West -33 3 £693 +15.42% 2
East of England -35 3 - - 3
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 (2.22%) CMS
1 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 22 (48.89%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (22.22%) GitHub
3 10 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (22.22%) Serverless
4 9 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (17.78%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (11.11%) Azure
6 5 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.22%) GCP
10 1 (2.22%) Heroku
10 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (6.67%) DNS
3 2 (4.44%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.22%) DHCP
4 1 (2.22%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.22%) LAN
4 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.22%) VLAN
4 1 (2.22%) VPN
4 1 (2.22%) WAN
4 1 (2.22%) Wireless
4 1 (2.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.44%) Data Vault
2 2 (4.44%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Cucumber
2 9 (20.00%) Git
3 7 (15.56%) Postman
4 6 (13.33%) GitLab
4 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
5 4 (8.89%) JIRA
5 4 (8.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (17.78%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Developer
2 11 (24.44%) Lead
2 11 (24.44%) Ruby Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Test Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 4 (8.89%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Site Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.44%) Designer
7 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Designer
7 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) Ruby on Rails
2 9 (20.00%) YAML
3 7 (15.56%) Playwright
4 6 (13.33%) Node.js
5 5 (11.11%) Next.js
6 3 (6.67%) Web Services
7 2 (4.44%) AWS CDK
7 2 (4.44%) Spring
8 1 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (44.44%) Linux
2 8 (17.78%) CentOS
2 8 (17.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (17.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) CI/CD
2 16 (35.56%) DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) Agile
3 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (17.78%) ITSM
5 8 (17.78%) RBAC
6 7 (15.56%) Regression Testing
6 7 (15.56%) Scrum
6 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
7 6 (13.33%) Kanban
7 6 (13.33%) Manual Testing
7 6 (13.33%) Microservices
7 6 (13.33%) SDLC
7 6 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (13.33%) Test Strategy
8 4 (8.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) Python
2 14 (31.11%) Perl
3 8 (17.78%) Java
4 7 (15.56%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.67%) Bash
6 3 (6.67%) SQL
7 2 (4.44%) Go
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) RHCE
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.22%) GPFS
3 1 (2.22%) Lustre
3 1 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (31.11%) Kubernetes
1 14 (31.11%) Terraform
2 10 (22.22%) Ansible
3 9 (20.00%) Puppet
4 2 (4.44%) Kibana
5 1 (2.22%) Consul
5 1 (2.22%) Grafana
5 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) PagerDuty
3 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Arista
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco
4 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk