Ruby Contracts

Ruby
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 414 350
Rank change year-on-year +7 -64 +13
Contract jobs citing Ruby 137 183 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.42% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% 1.38% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 120 260
10th Percentile £332 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% +2.17%
75th Percentile £613 £634 £675
90th Percentile £675 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £623 £625
% change year-on-year -23.69% -0.40% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £40.63 £53.39 -
25th Percentile £42.69 £54.73 -
Median hourly rate £50.25 £58.22 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% - -
75th Percentile £56.69 £60.45 -
90th Percentile £58.08 £61.04 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,687 13,281 19,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.52% 30.70% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,205 9,329 13,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 536 461
10th Percentile £27.00 £31.25 £30.75
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £78.22 £75.00 £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +14 104 £500 -4.76% 262
London -8 65 £525 +1.20% 146
Work from Home -8 44 £450 -12.20% 208
UK excluding London +41 40 £475 -23.69% 132
North of England +12 18 £485 +4.86% 68
North West +13 13 £500 +14.29% 53
Wales +14 8 £475 -2.56% 6
South East +46 7 £450 -10.00% 22
Midlands +10 5 £450 -54.95% 8
Yorkshire +5 5 £369 -38.50% 13
West Midlands +4 5 £450 -54.95% 5
East of England +21 2 - - 4
South West +28 1 £425 -34.62% 12
Scotland -6 1 - - 8

Ruby
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 4 (2.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.46%) JBoss
2 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.73%) CMS
3 1 (0.73%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.73%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 42 (30.66%) AWS
2 22 (16.06%) Azure
3 12 (8.76%) Serverless
4 11 (8.03%) GCP
5 8 (5.84%) GitHub
6 7 (5.11%) SaaS
7 6 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.65%) Amazon Bedrock
8 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.92%) IaaS
9 4 (2.92%) PaaS
10 2 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.46%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.46%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.46%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.73%) IPv4
1 1 (0.73%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.33%) MySQL
2 18 (13.14%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.49%) MongoDB
4 12 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.46%) Power BI
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.73%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.73%) DB2
9 1 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.73%) GIS
9 1 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.73%) Redis
9 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.73%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 24 (17.52%) Git
2 16 (11.68%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.76%) Cucumber
4 9 (6.57%) JIRA
5 8 (5.84%) GitLab
5 8 (5.84%) Selenium
6 5 (3.65%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.92%) Appium
7 4 (2.92%) Gatling
7 4 (2.92%) Gradle
7 4 (2.92%) JMeter
7 4 (2.92%) NeoLoad
7 4 (2.92%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.92%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.92%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.92%) Xcode
8 3 (2.19%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.46%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.46%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.25%) Public Sector
3 21 (15.33%) Finance
4 7 (5.11%) Banking
5 4 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.19%) Front Office
6 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.19%) Military
7 1 (0.73%) Back Office
7 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 82 (59.85%) Developer
2 33 (24.09%) Ruby Developer
3 26 (18.98%) Senior
4 18 (13.14%) Senior Developer
5 11 (8.03%) Java Developer
5 11 (8.03%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 10 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (6.57%) Lead
8 8 (5.84%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Lead Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Site Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Test Engineer
12 4 (2.92%) Architect
12 4 (2.92%) Python Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Software Test Engineer
12 4 (2.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (29.93%) Ruby on Rails
2 20 (14.60%) .NET
3 18 (13.14%) Node.js
4 17 (12.41%) React
5 16 (11.68%) HTML
5 16 (11.68%) RESTful
6 15 (10.95%) CSS
7 14 (10.22%) GraphQL
8 12 (8.76%) AngularJS
9 11 (8.03%) Spring Boot
10 9 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (6.57%) Spring
11 8 (5.84%) Web Services
11 8 (5.84%) XML
12 7 (5.11%) ASP.NET
12 7 (5.11%) JSON
12 7 (5.11%) REST
13 6 (4.38%) OAuth
14 5 (3.65%) Gherkin
14 5 (3.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.30%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.65%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.92%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.92%) Genomics
4 4 (2.92%) LIMS
4 4 (2.92%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.19%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.46%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.46%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.46%) PKI
7 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.68%) Linux
2 11 (8.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.84%) Windows
4 4 (2.92%) Android
4 4 (2.92%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.19%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.46%) CentOS
6 2 (1.46%) Debian
7 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (31.39%) Agile
2 33 (24.09%) DevOps
3 32 (23.36%) CI/CD
4 29 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (15.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (13.87%) Test Automation
7 17 (12.41%) Scrum
7 17 (12.41%) Software Engineering
8 16 (11.68%) Microservices
9 15 (10.95%) Computer Science
10 14 (10.22%) Containerisation
11 12 (8.76%) Configuration Management
11 12 (8.76%) TDD
12 11 (8.03%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (7.30%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (6.57%) Front End Development
14 9 (6.57%) Mentoring
14 9 (6.57%) OO
14 9 (6.57%) Performance Tuning
14 9 (6.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 81 (59.12%) Python
2 47 (34.31%) Java
3 40 (29.20%) JavaScript
4 20 (14.60%) PHP
4 20 (14.60%) SQL
5 16 (11.68%) C#
6 13 (9.49%) Bash
7 10 (7.30%) Shell Script
7 10 (7.30%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.57%) C++
8 9 (6.57%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.57%) Scala
9 5 (3.65%) C
9 5 (3.65%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.92%) Objective-C
10 4 (2.92%) Perl
10 4 (2.92%) Swift
11 3 (2.19%) Go
11 3 (2.19%) Rust
11 3 (2.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (13.14%) Degree
2 17 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.38%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.38%) RHCE
6 4 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.19%) CISSP
7 3 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.46%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.73%) GPEN
9 1 (0.73%) GWAPT
9 1 (0.73%) OSCE
9 1 (0.73%) OSCP
9 1 (0.73%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.30%) QA
2 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.73%) EMIR
4 1 (0.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.73%) MiFID
4 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (21.90%) Docker
2 10 (7.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.19%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (22.63%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.95%) Ansible
3 14 (10.22%) Puppet
4 11 (8.03%) Progress Chef
4 11 (8.03%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.03%) Terraform
5 8 (5.84%) Grafana
6 5 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.19%) Kibana
8 2 (1.46%) Nagios
9 1 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.73%) Graphite
9 1 (0.73%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (8.76%) Oracle
2 9 (6.57%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.11%) Splunk
3 7 (5.11%) Virgin Media
4 6 (4.38%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.92%) LabVantage
5 4 (2.92%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.92%) YouTube
6 2 (1.46%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.46%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.46%) Google
6 2 (1.46%) IBM
7 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.73%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.73%) CQG
7 1 (0.73%) Imperva
7 1 (0.73%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.73%) Reuters
7 1 (0.73%) TOWER Software