Ray Contracts

Ray
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ray skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ray over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 591 693
Rank change year-on-year +53 +102 -
Contract jobs citing Ray 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.005% 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.081% 0.022% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £783 -
25th Percentile £825 £794 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £850 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +30.77% -
75th Percentile £875 £919 £675
90th Percentile - £938 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £650

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Ray falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,380 9,225 12,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.56% 21.50% 22.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,985 6,312 9,278
10th Percentile £350 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £655 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 278 163
10th Percentile £29.23 £22.68 £30.15
25th Percentile £38.89 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £55.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -14.06% +20.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £72.95 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £58.30 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.06% -2.83% +9.09%

Ray
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ray as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ray in the UK

Ray
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ray.

Daily rate trend for Ray in the UK

Ray
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ray within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 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
England +46 6 £850 - 16
London +32 6 £850 - 13
Work from Home - 2 - - 15

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
1 4 (66.67%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 1 (16.67%) LangChain
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (16.67%) Polars
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Tandem
3 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (16.67%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Deep Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (50.00%) Parallel Computing
3 3 (50.00%) Pattern Recognition
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Debt
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Fintech
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) MLOps
5 1 (16.67%) Multi-Agent System
5 1 (16.67%) Open Source
5 1 (16.67%) Reinforcement Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Trade-off Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) C
2 4 (66.67%) C++
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google