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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 353 351
Rank change year-on-year +53 -2 +23
Contract jobs citing Ruby 35 44 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.21% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 0.90% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 59
10th Percentile £359 £416 £401
25th Percentile £391 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £610
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -20.08% +1.67%
75th Percentile £520 £634 £688
90th Percentile £550 £684 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £506 £600
% change year-on-year - -15.63% +2.13%

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 3,727 4,902 6,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.97% 23.79% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,493 3,298 4,502
10th Percentile £322 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £561 £585 £592
90th Percentile £638 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 426 324
10th Percentile £27.95 £37.55 £26.16
25th Percentile £44.63 £52.50 £50.94
Median hourly rate £63.37 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% - +22.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.36 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.79% -0.23% +22.11%

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 29 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 29 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 +9 17 £485 +7.78% 402
North West +5 12 £500 +11.11% 206
West Midlands +18 7 £450 -54.95% 170
Midlands +14 7 £450 -54.95% 321
South East +40 6 £450 -5.26% 450
Yorkshire +10 5 £369 -38.50% 153
Wales +5 3 £425 -12.82% 48
East of England - 2 - - 256
South West +43 1 £425 - 203
Scotland +1 1 - - 76
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 (11.43%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.57%) GitHub
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
1 3 (8.57%) MySQL
2 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) Adabas
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) DB2
3 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Git
2 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
3 5 (14.29%) JIRA
4 4 (11.43%) Cucumber
5 3 (8.57%) Gradle
5 3 (8.57%) Vagrant
5 3 (8.57%) Visual Studio
5 3 (8.57%) Xcode
6 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.86%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.86%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (2.86%) Capybara
7 1 (2.86%) GitLab
7 1 (2.86%) Metasploit
7 1 (2.86%) Selenium
7 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Ruby Developer
4 3 (8.57%) iOS Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Applications Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Ruby Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Tester
6 1 (2.86%) Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Database Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) IT Security Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) CSS
1 7 (20.00%) HTML
1 7 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (11.43%) React
3 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.57%) Apache Axis
3 3 (8.57%) Gherkin
3 3 (8.57%) RESTful
4 2 (5.71%) .NET
4 2 (5.71%) Blazor
5 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.86%) JSON
5 1 (2.86%) Node.js
5 1 (2.86%) OAuth
5 1 (2.86%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.86%) REST
5 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.86%) Swagger
5 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
1 3 (8.57%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) CCTV
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Windows
3 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.57%) Android
4 3 (8.57%) Apple iOS
4 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 5 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (14.29%) TDD
5 4 (11.43%) API Development
5 4 (11.43%) DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) Microservices
6 3 (8.57%) BDD
6 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (8.57%) iOS Development
6 3 (8.57%) Mobile Development
6 3 (8.57%) Scrum
6 3 (8.57%) Test Automation
6 3 (8.57%) Unit Testing
6 3 (8.57%) User Experience
6 3 (8.57%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) Java
3 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
5 5 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 5 (14.29%) SQL
6 4 (11.43%) C
6 4 (11.43%) C++
7 3 (8.57%) C#
7 3 (8.57%) Kotlin
7 3 (8.57%) Objective-C
7 3 (8.57%) Scala
7 3 (8.57%) Swift
8 2 (5.71%) PHP
9 1 (2.86%) Bash
9 1 (2.86%) Natural
9 1 (2.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) RHCE
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) CISSP
4 3 (8.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) GPEN
5 1 (2.86%) GWAPT
5 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.86%) OSCE
5 1 (2.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) VirtualBox
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Ansible
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.43%) Puppet
2 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
2 3 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.86%) Kibana
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.86%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Imperva