Ruby on Rails Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.087% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 - -
75th Percentile £501 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £501 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 216 116 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.85% 20.71% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 71 136
10th Percentile £385 £400 £344
25th Percentile £448 £428 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £587 £575 £625
90th Percentile £621 £650 £681
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £88.26 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £93.41 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £102.00 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -76.47% +635.40% -80.19%
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £102.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -33.82% +353.33% -67.86%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ruby on Rails relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Ruby on Rails job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Ruby on Rails.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Ruby on Rails.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. 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
Leeds - 1 £501 - 1
Ruby on Rails
Yorkshire

Ruby on Rails
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Heroku
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared