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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 326 329
Rank change year-on-year -124 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing Ruby 23 44 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 1.04% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 24
10th Percentile £373 £369 £463
25th Percentile £384 £388 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -24.00% +0.60%
75th Percentile £531 £520 £691
90th Percentile £538 £550 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £480 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% -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 6,124 4,247 4,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.24% 27.69% 23.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,789 2,779 2,912
10th Percentile £331 £310 £325
25th Percentile £413 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £550 £588
90th Percentile £656 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £502 £533
% change year-on-year +2.64% -5.86% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 196 325
10th Percentile £33.70 £30.00 £30.47
25th Percentile £53.53 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.35 £79.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +8.33%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 8 £425 -10.53% 11
Yorkshire -43 6 £501 +35.55% 1
North of England -81 6 £501 +30.34% 4
Scotland -13 4 £377 - 6
East of England - 3 - - 5
South West -50 1 - - 5
South East -74 1 £625 +38.89% 15
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 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.35%) Heroku
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) InfiniBand
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.70%) Data Vault
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
2 4 (17.39%) GoCD
2 4 (17.39%) Gradle
2 4 (17.39%) JProfiler
2 4 (17.39%) JUnit
2 4 (17.39%) Maven
3 2 (8.70%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Bundler
4 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.35%) Leiningen
General
1 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Senior Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Ruby Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Lead
4 5 (21.74%) Lead Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Lead Java Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Designer
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Designer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Development Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 1 (4.35%) Technical Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Test Development Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) Ruby on Rails
2 7 (30.43%) Node.js
3 5 (21.74%) Next.js
3 5 (21.74%) React
3 5 (21.74%) Spring
4 4 (17.39%) FreeMarker
4 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
5 3 (13.04%) Nunjucks
5 3 (13.04%) REST
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CDK
6 2 (8.70%) RESTful
7 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
7 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
7 1 (4.35%) Jest
7 1 (4.35%) JMS
7 1 (4.35%) Playwright
7 1 (4.35%) SAML
7 1 (4.35%) Struts
7 1 (4.35%) Tapestry
7 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (4.35%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) AIX
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) TDD
4 5 (21.74%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (13.04%) Code Quality
6 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (8.70%) Batch Processing
7 2 (8.70%) Clean Code
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
7 2 (8.70%) Cost Management
7 2 (8.70%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (8.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (8.70%) Front End Development
7 2 (8.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) TypeScript
2 7 (30.43%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) C++
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) GPFS
1 1 (4.35%) Lustre
1 1 (4.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Consul
3 1 (4.35%) Kibana
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) OneLogin
2 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow