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 13 August 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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
6,009
18,923
21,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London
34.74%
38.87%
40.07%
Number of daily rates quoted
3,782
12,028
14,075
Median daily rate
£450
£425
£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88%
+3.03%
+3.13%
10th Percentile
£300
£305
£295
90th Percentile
£590
£575
£550
UK median daily rate
£498
£475
£463
% change year-on-year
+4.74%
+2.70%
+2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted
244
543
545
Median hourly rate
£36.50
£44.00
£41.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.05%
+7.32%
-0.18%
10th Percentile
£16.15
£20.50
£15.88
90th Percentile
£53.38
£55.00
£51.00
Median hourly rate
£35.00
£44.00
£41.00
% change year-on-year
-20.45%
+7.32%
+1.23%
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.
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.
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 13 August 2020.
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.
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 13 August 2020. 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
Ruby Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the UK excluding London
For the 6 months to 13 August 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Ruby also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region with a requirement for Ruby.
Ruby Co-occurring IT Skills in the UK excluding London by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
