Ruby on Rails Contracts

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 520 616
Rank change year-on-year +24 +96 +5
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 24 62 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.36% 0.69% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 39 75
10th Percentile £413 £370 £413
25th Percentile £425 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £615 £563 £675
90th Percentile £675 £605 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £700
% change year-on-year +2.78% -35.71% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Ruby on Rails 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 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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 1 May 2025.

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 9 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 1 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
England +29 20 £475 -5.00% 177
London +15 13 £450 -10.00% 86
Work from Home +21 8 £475 -7.32% 173
UK excluding London +55 5 £463 +2.78% 116
Midlands +21 2 £413 -58.71% 4
North of England +16 2 £500 +42.86% 48
North West +14 2 £500 +42.86% 41
West Midlands +13 2 £413 -58.71%
Wales 0 1 £425 -12.82%

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) MySQL
3 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) Redis
5 1 (4.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) CSS
1 4 (16.67%) HTML
2 3 (12.50%) Django
2 3 (12.50%) React
2 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.33%) Blazor
3 2 (8.33%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) Spring
3 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) OO
2 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (16.67%) OOP
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
6 2 (8.33%) Active Record
6 2 (8.33%) API Design
6 2 (8.33%) API Development
6 2 (8.33%) B2B
6 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (8.33%) Fintech
6 2 (8.33%) Front End Development
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.33%) Insurtech
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Open Source
6 2 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Ruby
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.33%) Rust
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle