Ruby on Rails Contracts

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Ruby on Rails skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 617 611
Rank change year-on-year +80 -6 -129
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 61 102 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% 0.73% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 75 194
10th Percentile £384 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £569 £675 £650
90th Percentile £614 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £700 £560
% change year-on-year -35.71% +25.00% +31.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Ruby on Rails is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ruby on Rails as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby on Rails.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby on Rails in the UK

Ruby on Rails
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby on Rails within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +90 47 £500 -4.76% 35
London +95 35 £513 +1.49% 24
Work from Home +91 27 £525 -12.50% 28
UK excluding London +52 13 £450 -35.71% 14
North of England +20 5 £350 -50.00% 3
North West +18 5 £350 -44.00% 3
South East +26 3 £450 -18.18% 2
West Midlands +15 3 £999 +42.71% 2
Midlands +8 3 £999 +42.71% 3
Wales - 2 £488 -

Ruby on Rails
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 1 (1.64%) Ethereum
1 1 (1.64%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.03%) AWS
2 4 (6.56%) Azure
3 3 (4.92%) GitHub
3 3 (4.92%) SaaS
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.28%) Heroku
4 2 (3.28%) Serverless
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.64%) GCP
5 1 (1.64%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.75%) MySQL
3 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
2 1 (1.64%) RSpec
General
1 5 (8.20%) Finance
1 5 (8.20%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (78.69%) Developer
2 26 (42.62%) Ruby Developer
3 20 (32.79%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Senior
5 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 3 (4.92%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Lead
6 3 (4.92%) Team Leader
7 2 (3.28%) Backend Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Head of Engineering
8 1 (1.64%) C# Developer
8 1 (1.64%) Engineering Manager
8 1 (1.64%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
8 1 (1.64%) Open Source Developer
8 1 (1.64%) PHP Developer
8 1 (1.64%) Python Developer
8 1 (1.64%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.64%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) .NET
2 6 (9.84%) React
3 5 (8.20%) CSS
3 5 (8.20%) HTML
3 5 (8.20%) Node.js
4 4 (6.56%) REST
4 4 (6.56%) RESTful
5 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.92%) Web Services
6 1 (1.64%) jQuery
6 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.64%) Sinatra
6 1 (1.64%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (1.64%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.64%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.64%) PKI
3 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.67%) Agile
1 12 (19.67%) Full Stack Development
2 7 (11.48%) TDD
3 6 (9.84%) Test Automation
4 5 (8.20%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (8.20%) Microservices
4 5 (8.20%) MVC
5 4 (6.56%) Containerisation
5 4 (6.56%) Pair Programming
6 3 (4.92%) CI/CD
6 3 (4.92%) Defect Management
6 3 (4.92%) Design Patterns
6 3 (4.92%) Front End Development
6 3 (4.92%) Open Source
6 3 (4.92%) OWASP
6 3 (4.92%) Software Engineering
6 3 (4.92%) Web Accessibility
7 2 (3.28%) DevOps
7 2 (3.28%) Fintech
7 2 (3.28%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 61 (100.00%) Ruby
2 13 (21.31%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.84%) Java
4 5 (8.20%) Python
5 4 (6.56%) Go
5 4 (6.56%) PHP
6 3 (4.92%) Rust
7 2 (3.28%) C#
7 2 (3.28%) SQL
8 1 (1.64%) Bash
8 1 (1.64%) C++
8 1 (1.64%) Perl
8 1 (1.64%) Solidity
8 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.92%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.92%) Splunk
2 1 (1.64%) Google