Ruby Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ruby
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 346 361
Rank change year-on-year +43 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Ruby 33 53 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.26% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 1.09% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 76
10th Percentile £357 £413 £386
25th Percentile £394 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -10.57% +6.96%
75th Percentile £522 £634 £675
90th Percentile £556 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%

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 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

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 1 May 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 +8 14 £485 -9.77% 114
North West +7 9 £500 +11.11% 77
Midlands +24 7 £450 -54.95% 55
West Midlands +17 7 £450 -54.95% 22
South East +43 5 £500 +5.26% 108
Yorkshire +7 5 £369 -32.91% 30
Wales +3 4 £425 -12.82% 5
South West +47 2 £600 - 20
East of England - 2 - - 13
Scotland +2 1 £375 -39.76% 8
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 4 (12.12%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) GitHub
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) IaaS
5 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.03%) PaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) Adabas
3 1 (3.03%) DB2
3 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) JIRA
3 4 (12.12%) Cucumber
3 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.09%) Vagrant
4 3 (9.09%) Visual Studio
5 2 (6.06%) Burp Suite
5 2 (6.06%) Metasploit
5 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.03%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (3.03%) GitLab
6 1 (3.03%) MLflow
6 1 (3.03%) Selenium
6 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Developer
2 4 (12.12%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Applications Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Ruby Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.03%) Database Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) CSS
1 5 (15.15%) HTML
1 5 (15.15%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Axis
2 3 (9.09%) Gherkin
2 3 (9.09%) React
3 2 (6.06%) .NET
3 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.06%) Blazor
3 2 (6.06%) RESTful
3 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.03%) Handlebars
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.03%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
4 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) CCTV
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) IoT
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 7 (21.21%) Windows
3 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.03%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.18%) DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) Agile
3 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
3 5 (15.15%) Microservices
4 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
4 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (12.12%) SOA
5 3 (9.09%) API Development
5 3 (9.09%) Change Management
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security
5 3 (9.09%) Design Patterns
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (9.09%) ITIL
5 3 (9.09%) Project Management
5 3 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 2 (6.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) Java
3 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
4 6 (18.18%) SQL
5 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
7 3 (9.09%) C#
8 2 (6.06%) Bash
8 2 (6.06%) C
8 2 (6.06%) C++
8 2 (6.06%) Perl
8 2 (6.06%) PHP
9 1 (3.03%) CoffeeScript
9 1 (3.03%) Natural
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.12%) RHCE
4 3 (9.09%) CISSP
4 3 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (6.06%) GPEN
5 2 (6.06%) GWAPT
5 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 2 (6.06%) OSCE
5 2 (6.06%) OSCP
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.03%) MCITP
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) VirtualBox
3 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Ansible
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.12%) Puppet
2 3 (9.09%) Progress Chef
2 3 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (3.03%) Kibana
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 5 (15.15%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) Imperva