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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 319 340
Rank change year-on-year -104 +21 +20
Contract jobs citing Ruby 29 34 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% 0.89% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 38
10th Percentile £413 £359 £421
25th Percentile £431 £388 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -14.29%
75th Percentile £537 £520 £669
90th Percentile £537 £550 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -14.58%

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 5,867 3,837 5,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.82% 28.66% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,682 2,541 3,312
10th Percentile £335 £313 £319
25th Percentile £409 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £577
90th Percentile £650 £626 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 166 453
10th Percentile £37.85 £26.81 £37.55
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £84.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.97%

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
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 17 June 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 -67 18 £508 +4.69% 41
Yorkshire -45 16 £508 +37.60% 17
Wales -6 7 £425 - 24
East of England -26 3 - - 36
North West -49 2 - - 20
North East - 2 £450 - 4
South West -27 1 - - 16
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 (3.45%) CMS
1 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.45%) Heroku
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) InfiniBand
1 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (6.90%) Data Vault
1 2 (6.90%) MySQL
1 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Cucumber
2 3 (10.34%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 8 (27.59%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Developer
2 10 (34.48%) Lead
2 10 (34.48%) Ruby Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Designer
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Designer
5 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.90%) UI Developer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) Ruby on Rails
2 9 (31.03%) YAML
3 5 (17.24%) Next.js
3 5 (17.24%) Node.js
4 3 (10.34%) Nunjucks
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CDK
5 2 (6.90%) Spring
6 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Grid Computing
2 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) CentOS
2 8 (27.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (27.59%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (27.59%) ITSM
4 8 (27.59%) RBAC
5 6 (20.69%) TDD
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
8 2 (6.90%) Auto-Scaling
8 2 (6.90%) Batch Processing
8 2 (6.90%) Capacity Management
8 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security
8 2 (6.90%) Cost Management
8 2 (6.90%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (6.90%) Front End Development
8 2 (6.90%) Microservices
8 2 (6.90%) Security Architecture
8 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) TypeScript
3 9 (31.03%) Perl
4 5 (17.24%) Java
5 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.34%) Bash
6 3 (10.34%) SQL
7 2 (6.90%) Go
7 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.45%) C++
8 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) RHCE
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) GPFS
2 1 (3.45%) Lustre
2 1 (3.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Ansible
1 9 (31.03%) Puppet
2 7 (24.14%) Terraform
3 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Kibana
5 1 (3.45%) Consul
5 1 (3.45%) Grafana
5 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) PagerDuty
2 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk