Ruby Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ruby
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Ruby skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 363 360
Rank change year-on-year +27 -3 -56
Contract jobs citing Ruby 49 93 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.40% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 1.36% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 70 94
10th Percentile £413 £405 £375
25th Percentile £450 £488 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £611 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +6.30% +21.05%
75th Percentile £634 £669 £650
90th Percentile £691 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.39% +16.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.45
25th Percentile - - £32.88
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
75th Percentile - - £47.88
90th Percentile - - £52.15
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £40.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Ruby is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,798 6,820 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.38% 29.02% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 4,850 6,148
10th Percentile £315 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £646
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 338 330
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.58 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 -10 20 £450 -28.00% 10
North West -2 15 £450 -27.13% 5
Scotland +52 12 £623 +24.50% 3
South East +3 9 £475 -18.10% 7
Midlands +16 5 £999 +42.71% 5
Yorkshire +14 5 £600 -14.29% 5
West Midlands +12 4 £999 +42.71% 4
Wales +19 2 £488 -15.22% 2
South West +17 1 - - 13
East Midlands +6 1 £475 -32.14% 1
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 5 (10.20%) nginx
2 3 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.12%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.08%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 25 (51.02%) AWS
2 8 (16.33%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (16.33%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) OpenShift
3 6 (12.24%) GCP
3 6 (12.24%) SaaS
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.16%) CloudBees
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.12%) Azure API Management
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.12%) Datadog
6 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (6.12%) IaaS
6 3 (6.12%) PaaS
6 3 (6.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) Firewall
2 3 (6.12%) DSL
2 3 (6.12%) Network Security
2 3 (6.12%) VPN
3 2 (4.08%) DNS
3 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) MongoDB
1 6 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.16%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.12%) ClickHouse
3 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.08%) MySQL
5 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.04%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.04%) Redis
5 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (48.98%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.41%) Git
2 10 (20.41%) Maven
3 9 (18.37%) Gradle
4 6 (12.24%) GitLab
5 3 (6.12%) JIRA
5 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio
6 2 (4.08%) Capybara
7 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.04%) gulp
7 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.04%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.24%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Developer
2 12 (24.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Lead
4 8 (16.33%) Ruby Developer
5 7 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Site Manager
6 5 (10.20%) Site Reliability Manager
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Team Leader
8 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior
9 2 (4.08%) Technical Leader
10 1 (2.04%) Database Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) Senior DevOps
10 1 (2.04%) UI Developer
10 1 (2.04%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) Ruby on Rails
2 7 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (6.12%) Apache Beam
3 3 (6.12%) Kafka
3 3 (6.12%) Keycloak
3 3 (6.12%) React
3 3 (6.12%) Web Services
4 2 (4.08%) cloud-init
4 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.08%) WebKit
5 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.04%) CSS
5 1 (2.04%) HTML
5 1 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Public Cloud
2 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Clustering
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.08%) PKI
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Linux
2 9 (18.37%) Windows
3 8 (16.33%) Unix
4 2 (4.08%) CentOS
4 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) DevOps
2 21 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.61%) Agile
4 12 (24.49%) Configuration Management
4 12 (24.49%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
5 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (16.33%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (16.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (14.29%) Application Security
7 7 (14.29%) High Availability
7 7 (14.29%) OWASP
8 6 (12.24%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (12.24%) Open Source
9 5 (10.20%) Continuous Deployment
9 5 (10.20%) Data Protection
9 5 (10.20%) Mentoring
9 5 (10.20%) Service-Level Objective
9 5 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (55.10%) Python
2 16 (32.65%) Bash
2 16 (32.65%) Java
3 12 (24.49%) Groovy
4 9 (18.37%) JavaScript
5 8 (16.33%) Go
5 8 (16.33%) Shell Script
6 5 (10.20%) C#
6 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.16%) C
7 4 (8.16%) C++
7 4 (8.16%) Perl
7 4 (8.16%) PHP
7 4 (8.16%) Scala
8 2 (4.08%) SQL
9 1 (2.04%) Elixir
9 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
1 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
1 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) CREST Certified
3 1 (2.04%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) PCI DSS
1 3 (6.12%) SLA
2 2 (4.08%) NCSC
3 1 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 25 (51.02%) Docker
2 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (55.10%) Kubernetes
2 21 (42.86%) Terraform
3 19 (38.78%) Ansible
4 7 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 7 (14.29%) Puppet
5 4 (8.16%) Grafana
6 3 (6.12%) Nagios
6 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (4.08%) CFEngine
7 2 (4.08%) Consul
7 2 (4.08%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (4.08%) Graphite
7 2 (4.08%) HAProxy
7 2 (4.08%) Istio
7 2 (4.08%) linkerd
7 2 (4.08%) Packer
7 2 (4.08%) Podman
7 2 (4.08%) PowerBroker
7 2 (4.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) VMware
2 5 (10.20%) Splunk
3 3 (6.12%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) New Relic
4 2 (4.08%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Virgin Media