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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 318 363
Rank change year-on-year -9 +45 +10
Contract jobs citing Ruby 41 50 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.14% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 40
10th Percentile £375 £263 £418
25th Percentile £416 £456 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -1.88% +7.28%
75th Percentile £520 £675 £700
90th Percentile £568 £700 £739
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -

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 4,269 4,390 5,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.60% 24.66% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,772 2,797 3,850
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £584 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 271 340
10th Percentile £31.64 £31.25 £34.06
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.49 £49.40
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.17 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +11.61%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 0 17 £489 +2.84% 8
North West -4 15 £489 +22.28% 5
Wales - 13 £475 - 2
South East +23 7 £450 -21.74% 5
West Midlands -11 3 £450 +63.64%
Midlands -13 3 £450 +63.64% 2
Yorkshire -9 2 £460 -29.31% 2
South West +2 1 £425 -34.62% 3
Scotland -17 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £450 - 5
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 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) AWS
2 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (7.32%) Serverless
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.88%) GitHub
4 1 (2.44%) Azure
4 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.88%) MySQL
2 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Git
2 9 (21.95%) Cucumber
2 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.07%) Gradle
3 7 (17.07%) Xcode
4 2 (4.88%) Vite
4 2 (4.88%) webpack
5 1 (2.44%) Capybara
5 1 (2.44%) GitLab
5 1 (2.44%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) Selenium
5 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.44%) Vagrant
5 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (17.07%) Banking
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.44%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (58.54%) Developer
2 6 (14.63%) iOS Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Architect
4 4 (9.76%) Ruby Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Applications Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Ruby Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Android Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Automation Tester
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Developer
7 1 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (41.46%) Ruby on Rails
2 8 (19.51%) Spring
2 8 (19.51%) Spring Boot
3 7 (17.07%) CSS
3 7 (17.07%) HTML
4 5 (12.20%) React
5 4 (9.76%) Node.js
5 4 (9.76%) RESTful
6 3 (7.32%) Apache Axis
7 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.88%) Redux
7 2 (4.88%) Vue
8 1 (2.44%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Mobile App
1 7 (17.07%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) CCTV
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) IoT
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Android
1 7 (17.07%) Apple iOS
2 6 (14.63%) Linux
3 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (9.76%) Windows
4 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Agile
2 10 (24.39%) Front End Development
3 9 (21.95%) TDD
4 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
5 7 (17.07%) BDD
5 7 (17.07%) Continuous Deployment
5 7 (17.07%) Mobile Development
5 7 (17.07%) Roadmaps
5 7 (17.07%) Scrum
5 7 (17.07%) Technology Roadmap
5 7 (17.07%) Unit Testing
5 7 (17.07%) User Experience
5 7 (17.07%) UX Design
6 6 (14.63%) iOS Development
6 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.20%) DevOps
7 5 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (9.76%) Microservices
9 3 (7.32%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) Python
2 14 (34.15%) Java
3 10 (24.39%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.07%) C
4 7 (17.07%) C++
4 7 (17.07%) Kotlin
4 7 (17.07%) Objective-C
4 7 (17.07%) Scala
4 7 (17.07%) Swift
5 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
5 5 (12.20%) SQL
6 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (7.32%) C#
8 2 (4.88%) Go
9 1 (2.44%) Bash
9 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) RHCE
4 3 (7.32%) CISSP
4 3 (7.32%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 11 (26.83%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Firmware
3 1 (2.44%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 12 (29.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.88%) Ansible
3 2 (4.88%) Puppet
4 1 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Splunk