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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 336 327
Rank change year-on-year -122 -9 +32
Contract jobs citing Ruby 20 41 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.071% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.33% 0.95% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 34
10th Percentile £322 £375 £263
25th Percentile £377 £416 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +0.92%
75th Percentile £533 £547 £647
90th Percentile £538 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £550
% change year-on-year +2.35% -11.18% -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 6,122 4,336 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.61% 27.80% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,723 2,802 2,737
10th Percentile £331 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £582
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.65% -3.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 203 269
10th Percentile £23.72 £33.91 £27.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 26 September 2026.

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 September 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
Wales -16 6 £463 -2.63% 8
Yorkshire -38 5 £493 +7.18% 4
North of England -84 5 £493 +29.61% 22
Scotland -20 4 £377 - 6
South East -73 2 £450 -10.00% 21
East of England - 2 - - 1
South West -42 1 - - 5
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 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
2 3 (15.00%) Serverless
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) Git
3 4 (20.00%) GoCD
3 4 (20.00%) Gradle
3 4 (20.00%) JProfiler
3 4 (20.00%) JUnit
3 4 (20.00%) Maven
4 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.00%) Bundler
5 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
5 1 (5.00%) Leiningen
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 8 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Development Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Designer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Developer
6 1 (5.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 7 (35.00%) Node.js
3 6 (30.00%) React
3 6 (30.00%) Spring
4 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 4 (20.00%) FreeMarker
6 3 (15.00%) Next.js
6 3 (15.00%) Nunjucks
6 3 (15.00%) REST
6 3 (15.00%) RESTful
7 2 (10.00%) Gherkin
7 2 (10.00%) Jest
7 2 (10.00%) Playwright
7 2 (10.00%) Terraform
8 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
8 1 (5.00%) JMS
8 1 (5.00%) SAML
8 1 (5.00%) Struts
8 1 (5.00%) Tapestry
8 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) AIX
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) TDD
4 6 (30.00%) Scrum
4 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) BDD
6 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (10.00%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) Perl
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) WCAG
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) GPFS
1 1 (5.00%) Lustre
1 1 (5.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Consul
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
2 1 (5.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) OneLogin
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow