Ruby Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ruby
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 269 261 268
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Ruby 35 84 219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.55% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.95% 1.64% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 65 147
10th Percentile £363 £360 £425
25th Percentile £431 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £688
90th Percentile £638 £788 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Ruby
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ruby trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ruby
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ruby.

Ruby daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ruby over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing Ruby.

Ruby hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ruby
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 2 (5.71%) JBoss
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.71%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (2.86%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) AWS
2 14 (40.00%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.86%) IaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Kong
7 1 (2.86%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) SaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
7 1 (2.86%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 4 (11.43%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.71%) MySQL
3 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Adabas
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.86%) GIS
4 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.14%) Git
3 5 (14.29%) CircleCI
3 5 (14.29%) Gatling
3 5 (14.29%) GitLab
3 5 (14.29%) JMeter
4 4 (11.43%) Appium
4 4 (11.43%) JIRA
4 4 (11.43%) NeoLoad
4 4 (11.43%) Selenium
4 4 (11.43%) SpecFlow
5 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (5.71%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.86%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.86%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Front Office
3 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Senior
2 5 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Developer in Test
3 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Ruby Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Senior Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Software Test Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Test Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Ruby Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Java Swing Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) Ruby on Rails
2 5 (14.29%) React
3 4 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (11.43%) HTML
3 4 (11.43%) Play Framework
3 4 (11.43%) Playwright
4 3 (8.57%) .NET
4 3 (8.57%) CSS
4 3 (8.57%) Node.js
5 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.71%) Middleware
5 2 (5.71%) REST
5 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.71%) Swing
5 2 (5.71%) XML
6 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.86%) RESTful
6 1 (2.86%) SOAP
6 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.57%) Fixed Income
1 3 (8.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) Equities
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) DevOps
2 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 11 (31.43%) Agile
4 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (25.71%) Test Automation
5 7 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (20.00%) Migration
6 6 (17.14%) Kanban
6 6 (17.14%) Scrum
7 5 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (14.29%) Integration Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Performance Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Software Testing
8 4 (11.43%) Defect Management
8 4 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (11.43%) Logistics
8 4 (11.43%) SDET
8 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) Python
2 17 (48.57%) Java
3 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 8 (22.86%) SQL
5 7 (20.00%) C#
6 6 (17.14%) PHP
7 5 (14.29%) Bash
7 5 (14.29%) C++
7 5 (14.29%) Perl
7 5 (14.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (11.43%) Scala
9 2 (5.71%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.86%) C
10 1 (2.86%) CoffeeScript
10 1 (2.86%) Go
10 1 (2.86%) Groovy
10 1 (2.86%) Natural
10 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
10 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) GPEN
5 1 (2.86%) GWAPT
5 1 (2.86%) OSCE
5 1 (2.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) EMIR
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.86%) MiFID
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Terraform
2 6 (17.14%) Ansible
3 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 5 (14.29%) Puppet
4 4 (11.43%) Grafana
4 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.86%) CQG
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Reuters
4 1 (2.86%) TOWER Software