Ruby Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ruby
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Ruby skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 274 256
Rank change year-on-year +6 -18 -50
Contract jobs citing Ruby 80 213 460
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.83% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% 2.24% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 140 337
10th Percentile £350 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £480 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £712 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £581
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.36% +14.38%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Ruby is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,078 9,530 16,958
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.51% 37.32% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,680 6,970 12,590
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 204 191
10th Percentile £26.50 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.63% +11.17%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £88.38 £78.80 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +14.94%

Ruby
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ruby trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Ruby daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Ruby over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Ruby daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Ruby hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 8 (10.00%) Apache
2 7 (8.75%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.25%) WordPress
4 3 (3.75%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (2.50%) CMS
6 1 (1.25%) Confluence
6 1 (1.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (1.25%) Hyperledger
6 1 (1.25%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (55.00%) AWS
2 15 (18.75%) GCP
3 13 (16.25%) Azure
4 8 (10.00%) SaaS
5 7 (8.75%) dbt
6 6 (7.50%) GitHub
7 4 (5.00%) Datadog
8 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.25%) Heroku
10 1 (1.25%) IaaS
10 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Intranet
2 3 (3.75%) DSL
3 1 (1.25%) DNS
3 1 (1.25%) HTTP
3 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.25%) NAS
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (1.25%) SSL
3 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.25%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) MySQL
2 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.75%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (8.75%) Apache Arrow
3 7 (8.75%) Apache Ignite
3 7 (8.75%) Dremio
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.50%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.25%) JIRA
3 7 (8.75%) Git
4 6 (7.50%) GitLab
5 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.25%) Gradle
5 1 (1.25%) gulp
5 1 (1.25%) Maven
5 1 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.25%) RSpec
5 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.25%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (22.50%) Finance
2 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.50%) Banking
5 9 (11.25%) Investment Banking
6 7 (8.75%) Front Office
7 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) French Language
9 1 (1.25%) German Language
9 1 (1.25%) Legal
9 1 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (47.50%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) Ruby Developer
3 9 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Senior
5 6 (7.50%) Software Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Lead
6 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.00%) React Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.00%) WordPress Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Python Software Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.50%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (17.50%) .NET
3 10 (12.50%) Node.js
4 8 (10.00%) React
5 7 (8.75%) CSS
5 7 (8.75%) gRPC
5 7 (8.75%) HTML
5 7 (8.75%) NumPy
5 7 (8.75%) Pandas
5 7 (8.75%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (8.75%) SciPy
6 6 (7.50%) RESTful
7 5 (6.25%) REST
8 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.00%) Web Services
9 3 (3.75%) JSON
9 3 (3.75%) SOAP
9 3 (3.75%) XML
9 3 (3.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Derivative
1 6 (7.50%) Equities
1 6 (7.50%) Fixed Income
1 6 (7.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (7.50%) Hedge funds
1 6 (7.50%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.25%) NHS
3 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) PKI
5 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
1 6 (7.50%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Unix
2 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) DevOps
2 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
3 18 (22.50%) Agile
4 10 (12.50%) Analytics
4 10 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 9 (11.25%) Asset Management
5 9 (11.25%) Configuration Management
5 9 (11.25%) Mentoring
5 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (10.00%) TDD
7 7 (8.75%) Data Architecture
7 7 (8.75%) Product Management
7 7 (8.75%) Test Automation
8 6 (7.50%) Containerisation
8 6 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (7.50%) Investment Management
8 6 (7.50%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (6.25%) MVC
9 5 (6.25%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.75%) Python
2 23 (28.75%) JavaScript
3 19 (23.75%) Java
4 14 (17.50%) Go
5 11 (13.75%) Bash
6 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 9 (11.25%) Perl
8 7 (8.75%) Scala
9 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
9 6 (7.50%) SQL
10 5 (6.25%) C++
10 5 (6.25%) PHP
11 4 (5.00%) C#
12 3 (3.75%) C
13 2 (2.50%) Groovy
13 2 (2.50%) Korn
14 1 (1.25%) Rust
14 1 (1.25%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) COPPA
3 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) vCloud
2 3 (3.75%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.75%) vSphere
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) Postfix
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) Ansible
2 15 (18.75%) Progress Chef
2 15 (18.75%) Puppet
2 15 (18.75%) Terraform
3 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.75%) Autotask
5 3 (3.75%) CFEngine
5 3 (3.75%) Nagios
5 3 (3.75%) PowerBroker
6 2 (2.50%) Grafana
6 2 (2.50%) Opsgenie
6 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.25%) Kibana
7 1 (1.25%) logstash
7 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Splunk
2 5 (6.25%) TOWER Software
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) VMware
4 3 (3.75%) Arista
4 3 (3.75%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.75%) BMC
4 3 (3.75%) New Relic
4 3 (3.75%) PagerDuty
4 3 (3.75%) Remedy
5 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.50%) Google
5 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.50%) Sun
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle
6 1 (1.25%) Rollbar