Ruby Contract Job Trends in Wales

Ruby
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Ruby skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 46 55
Rank change year-on-year +19 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Ruby 12 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.54% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.12% 1.19% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -22.92%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £519
90th Percentile £628 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 85 84 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.07% 21.37% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 54 91
10th Percentile £256 £220 £275
25th Percentile £313 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.21% -13.64%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £572
90th Percentile £600 £596 £650
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £23.48 - £18.26
25th Percentile £24.44 £20.12 £20.18
Median hourly rate £26.05 £20.24 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -16.56% +21.80%
75th Percentile £27.65 £20.76 £33.31
90th Percentile £28.61 £31.53 £46.48
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in Wales

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Ruby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Ruby

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in Wales over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in Wales

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
West Wales +4 11 £475 -5.00% 2
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Ruby Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 8 (66.67%) Spring
2 8 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (8.33%) Front End Development
1 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes