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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 308 345
Rank change year-on-year -22 +37 +7
Contract jobs citing Ruby 50 53 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% 1.21% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 32 54
10th Percentile £367 £263 £425
25th Percentile £395 £334 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £553
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.98% +0.45%
75th Percentile £541 £638 £623
90th Percentile £638 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £492 £563 £586
% change year-on-year -12.53% -4.01% -2.33%

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 4,470 4,369 5,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.57% 25.56% 26.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 2,636 3,778
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £555 £582 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 244 341
10th Percentile £33.91 £26.33 £37.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.00 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.36%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +4.17%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 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 -24 16 £380 -6.06% 7
North West -6 15 £378 -5.63% 2
Wales - 14 £475 - 3
South East +15 6 £500 -6.98% 40
Scotland -6 4 £358 -26.56% 5
South West -7 4 £649 -0.15% 2
West Midlands -23 3 - - 1
Midlands -31 3 - - 3
East of England -4 2 £469 -33.04% 1
Yorkshire -22 1 £550 -4.35% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £450 -
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 2 (4.00%) CMS
1 2 (4.00%) Drupal
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) AWS
2 10 (20.00%) Azure
3 8 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (16.00%) GCP
3 8 (16.00%) Serverless
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
6 5 (10.00%) GitHub
7 4 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.00%) MySQL
3 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (38.00%) Git
2 14 (28.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 8 (16.00%) JIRA
5 7 (14.00%) Gradle
5 7 (14.00%) Xcode
6 5 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 5 (10.00%) GitLab
6 5 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (4.00%) Vite
7 2 (4.00%) webpack
8 1 (2.00%) Capybara
8 1 (2.00%) Selenium
8 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (24.00%) Banking
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Military
6 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (58.00%) Developer
2 7 (14.00%) Ruby Developer
3 6 (12.00%) iOS Developer
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Backend Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Ruby Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (28.00%) Node.js
3 11 (22.00%) Spring
4 10 (20.00%) CSS
4 10 (20.00%) HTML
5 8 (16.00%) React
5 8 (16.00%) Spring Boot
6 6 (12.00%) RESTful
7 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.00%) Vue
8 3 (6.00%) Web Services
9 2 (4.00%) Drush
9 2 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Mobile App
1 7 (14.00%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Linux
2 7 (14.00%) Android
2 7 (14.00%) Apple iOS
3 5 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) Agile
2 15 (30.00%) DevOps
3 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (22.00%) Microservices
5 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.00%) Scrum
6 9 (18.00%) TDD
7 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
7 8 (16.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 8 (16.00%) User Experience
7 8 (16.00%) UX Design
8 7 (14.00%) BDD
8 7 (14.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 7 (14.00%) Mobile Development
8 7 (14.00%) Unit Testing
9 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (12.00%) iOS Development
10 5 (10.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 30 (60.00%) Python
2 24 (48.00%) Java
3 15 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (18.00%) C++
5 8 (16.00%) C
6 7 (14.00%) Kotlin
6 7 (14.00%) Objective-C
6 7 (14.00%) Perl
6 7 (14.00%) Scala
6 7 (14.00%) Swift
7 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 5 (10.00%) Shell Script
8 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
9 3 (6.00%) Bash
9 3 (6.00%) Go
9 3 (6.00%) SQL
10 2 (4.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.00%) RHCE
4 4 (8.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 24 (48.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.00%) GPFS
3 1 (2.00%) Lustre
3 1 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (48.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Argo
3 2 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) Consul
4 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.00%) Puppet
4 1 (2.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.00%) Google
3 4 (8.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft