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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 317 334
Rank change year-on-year -36 +17 +2
Contract jobs citing Ruby 56 54 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.26% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 32 59
10th Percentile £358 £263 £425
25th Percentile £395 £334 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £586 £643 £599
90th Percentile £650 £701 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £582
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.20% -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 4,679 4,276 5,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.45% 26.06% 25.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,040 2,505 3,581
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% -2.91%
75th Percentile £568 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 235 333
10th Percentile £41.25 £22.19 £34.90
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £79.75
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £63.00 £60.14
% change year-on-year +0.79% +4.76% +0.23%

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 +15 19 £475 -9.52% 3
North of England -45 12 £545 +35.49% 4
North West -19 9 £378 +2.44% 2
Scotland -6 8 £358 -15.76% 7
South West -22 6 £650 -3.70% 11
South East -1 5 £525 -12.50% 17
West Midlands -22 3 - - 1
Midlands -32 3 - - 1
East of England -13 2 £469 -33.04%
North East - 2 £545 -
Yorkshire -36 1 £550 -4.35% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £450 - 1
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 (3.57%) Drupal
2 1 (1.79%) CMS
2 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 29 (51.79%) AWS
2 14 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 14 (25.00%) GitHub
3 12 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (21.43%) Serverless
4 11 (19.64%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (19.64%) Azure
4 11 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (16.07%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
7 8 (14.29%) GCP
8 6 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (5.36%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) DNS
3 2 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.79%) DHCP
4 1 (1.79%) InfiniBand
4 1 (1.79%) LAN
4 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.79%) VLAN
4 1 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (1.79%) WAN
4 1 (1.79%) Wireless
4 1 (1.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.14%) MySQL
4 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (37.50%) Git
2 17 (30.36%) Cucumber
3 13 (23.21%) Jenkins
4 11 (19.64%) JIRA
5 8 (14.29%) Bitbucket
5 8 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (12.50%) GitLab
6 7 (12.50%) Postman
7 4 (7.14%) Gradle
7 4 (7.14%) Xcode
8 2 (3.57%) Vite
8 2 (3.57%) webpack
9 1 (1.79%) Capybara
General
1 11 (19.64%) Banking
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Ruby Developer
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (10.71%) Test Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Quality Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Technical Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) iOS Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead
7 3 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.36%) Node.js
2 16 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails
3 11 (19.64%) Spring
4 8 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 7 (12.50%) CSS
5 7 (12.50%) HTML
5 7 (12.50%) Playwright
5 7 (12.50%) React
6 6 (10.71%) RESTful
7 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
7 5 (8.93%) Vue
8 4 (7.14%) Web Services
9 2 (3.57%) Drush
9 2 (3.57%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.14%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Linux
2 4 (7.14%) Android
2 4 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.07%) Agile
1 23 (41.07%) CI/CD
2 19 (33.93%) DevOps
3 14 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (25.00%) Microservices
4 13 (23.21%) Scrum
5 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.50%) Front End Development
6 7 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.71%) Kanban
7 6 (10.71%) Manual Testing
7 6 (10.71%) SDLC
7 6 (10.71%) Test Strategy
8 5 (8.93%) Roadmaps
8 5 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (8.93%) Technology Roadmap
8 5 (8.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (51.79%) Python
2 24 (42.86%) Java
3 12 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 11 (19.64%) Perl
5 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 6 (10.71%) C++
7 5 (8.93%) C
8 4 (7.14%) Kotlin
8 4 (7.14%) Objective-C
8 4 (7.14%) Scala
8 4 (7.14%) Swift
8 4 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 3 (5.36%) Go
10 2 (3.57%) Bash
10 2 (3.57%) PHP
10 2 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.14%) Degree
5 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 27 (48.21%) Docker
2 6 (10.71%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.79%) GPFS
4 1 (1.79%) Lustre
4 1 (1.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (51.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Terraform
3 3 (5.36%) Argo
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Consul
4 1 (1.79%) Puppet
4 1 (1.79%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Oracle
2 5 (8.93%) Google
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.57%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.79%) Arista
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco
5 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto