Ruby Contracts in the West Midlands

Ruby
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 90 107 121
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +42
Contract jobs citing Ruby 7 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.21% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.04% 0.94% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £403 - £630
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £999 £700
Median % change year-on-year -54.95% +42.71% +28.44%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 343 425 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.50% 21.83% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 308 439
10th Percentile £235 £260 £362
25th Percentile £401 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £689 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
10th Percentile £16.85 £40.10 £21.73
25th Percentile £17.87 £55.00 £23.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%
75th Percentile £31.33 £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £33.91 £69.75 £98.25
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the West Midlands

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the West Midlands

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the West Midlands

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the West Midlands

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the West Midlands region 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
Warwickshire - 3 £450 - 2
Birmingham - 2 £575 - 6
Coventry - 2 £413 - 2
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (28.57%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Axis
2 2 (28.57%) Blazor
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) CCTV
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) SOA
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) API Development
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) OOP
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On