Ruby Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ruby Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Ruby Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 453 568
Rank change year-on-year +132 +115 -155
Contract jobs requiring a Ruby Developer 16 14 57
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.055% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.057% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 51
10th Percentile £390 £498 £450
25th Percentile £444 £508 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +13.99%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £600
90th Percentile - £689 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Ruby Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Ruby Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ruby Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ruby Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ruby Developer.

Ruby Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ruby Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Ruby Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Ruby Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ruby Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Ruby 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Ruby Developer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Ruby
2 11 (68.75%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) .NET
4 3 (18.75%) Web Services
4 3 (18.75%) Web Accessibility
4 3 (18.75%) RESTful
4 3 (18.75%) Node.js
4 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) TDD
5 1 (6.25%) Pair Programming
5 1 (6.25%) Intranet
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.25%) WordPress
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Microservices
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance

Ruby Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (6.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) GCP
1 1 (6.25%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) RSpec
General
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 3 (18.75%) RESTful
2 3 (18.75%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) Sinatra
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Agile
2 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
2 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (6.25%) Microservices
2 1 (6.25%) Migration
2 1 (6.25%) Pair Programming
2 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (6.25%) TDD
2 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Ruby
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Google