Ruby on Rails Developer Contracts

Ruby on Rails Developer (RoR Developer)
UK

The median Ruby on Rails Developer (RoR Developer) daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 672 771
Rank change year-on-year +113 +99 -164
Contract jobs requiring a Ruby on Rails Developer 20 28 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.047% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.049% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 70
10th Percentile £365 £413 £380
25th Percentile £388 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £575
90th Percentile £495 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -15.38% -11.36% +51.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Ruby on Rails Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK

Ruby on Rails Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK

Ruby on Rails Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby on Rails Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK

Ruby on Rails Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ruby on Rails Developer in the UK

Ruby on Rails Developer
Top 7 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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +102 12 £400 -25.58% 8
Work from Home +113 7 £475 -11.63% 3
London +105 7 £400 -33.33% 5
UK excluding London +70 7 £413 -15.38% 4
North of England +29 5 £350 -22.22% 2
North West - 5 £350 - 2
Wales - 2 £488 -

Ruby on Rails Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Ruby on Rails Developer 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 on Rails Developer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Ruby
1 20 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 6 (30.00%) Full Stack Development
3 5 (25.00%) MVC
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) .NET
3 5 (25.00%) MySQL
4 4 (20.00%) CSS
4 4 (20.00%) HTML
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (10.00%) Fintech
6 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (10.00%) Microservices
6 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (10.00%) User Stories
6 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (10.00%) B2C
7 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.00%) SQL
7 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (5.00%) Go
7 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.00%) DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Git
7 1 (5.00%) AWS
7 1 (5.00%) REST
7 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 1 (5.00%) React

Ruby on Rails Developer 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 5 (25.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) CSS
3 4 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (25.00%) MVC
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (10.00%) B2C
4 2 (10.00%) Fintech
4 2 (10.00%) Microservices
4 2 (10.00%) User Stories
5 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) Go
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared