Ruby Engineer Contracts

Ruby Engineer
UK

The median Ruby Engineer daily rate in the UK is £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 582 681
Rank change year-on-year +59 +99 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Ruby Engineer 3 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.002% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.002% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 22
10th Percentile £437 - £374
25th Percentile £475 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% +47.37% -12.24%
75th Percentile - - £523
90th Percentile - - £536
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £700 -
% change year-on-year -23.29% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,094 40,274 56,187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,701 26,219 39,262
10th Percentile £300 £276 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,672 1,567
10th Percentile £14.15 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.38
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%

Ruby Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Ruby Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby Engineer in the UK

Ruby Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby Engineer in the UK

Ruby Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Work from Home - 3 £537 - 30
England - 2 £481 - 25
UK excluding London +60 1 £537 -23.29% 18
London - 1 £425 - 10
South East - 1 £537 - 7

Ruby Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Ruby Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Ruby Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Kibana
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) JBoss
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity

Ruby Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (66.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (66.67%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk