Ruby Contracts in England

Ruby
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 322 334
Rank change year-on-year -86 +12 -58
Contract jobs citing Ruby 138 361 549
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.75% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 2.14% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 248 407
10th Percentile £350 £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £479 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +3.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £653
90th Percentile £791 £729 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -11.02% +2.61% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.22%

All Programming Languages
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,825 16,878 25,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.77% 34.95% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,857 12,342 19,074
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £769
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 410 457
10th Percentile £37.57 £26.12 £20.15
25th Percentile £49.84 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year - +22.91% +19.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.12 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.10
% change year-on-year - +24.75% +16.95%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in England.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in England

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in England.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in England

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
London -25 101 £525 -12.50% 64
North of England -12 19 £450 -28.00% 12
North West 0 14 £450 -26.83% 9
South East +13 9 £475 -18.10% 9
Midlands +16 5 £999 +42.71% 6
Yorkshire +7 5 £600 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +4 4 £999 +42.71% 4
South West +15 1 - - 13
East Midlands +2 1 £475 -32.14% 2
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (7.25%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.52%) Apache
3 5 (3.62%) nginx
3 5 (3.62%) WordPress
4 3 (2.17%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (2.17%) CMS
4 3 (2.17%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.45%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.45%) Traefik
6 1 (0.72%) Confluence
6 1 (0.72%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.72%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (44.93%) AWS
2 26 (18.84%) GCP
3 22 (15.94%) Azure
4 12 (8.70%) GitHub
5 10 (7.25%) SaaS
6 9 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (5.07%) dbt
8 6 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.62%) CloudBees
9 5 (3.62%) Datadog
9 5 (3.62%) IaaS
9 5 (3.62%) PaaS
9 5 (3.62%) Serverless
10 4 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.90%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.07%) DNS
2 6 (4.35%) Firewall
3 5 (3.62%) Intranet
4 3 (2.17%) DHCP
4 3 (2.17%) Network Security
4 3 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.17%) VPN
5 2 (1.45%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.45%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.45%) DSL
5 2 (1.45%) Internet
5 2 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.45%) Wireless
6 1 (0.72%) HTTP
6 1 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.72%) SAN
6 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.42%) MySQL
3 7 (5.07%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (5.07%) Apache Arrow
3 7 (5.07%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (5.07%) Apache Ignite
3 7 (5.07%) Dremio
3 7 (5.07%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.17%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.45%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.45%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.45%) Redis
7 2 (1.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.42%) Git
3 9 (6.52%) JIRA
4 8 (5.80%) GitLab
5 3 (2.17%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.45%) JUnit
6 2 (1.45%) Maven
6 2 (1.45%) Postman
6 2 (1.45%) Selenium
6 2 (1.45%) TestNG
6 2 (1.45%) Travis CI
6 2 (1.45%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.45%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (15.22%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.32%) Finance
3 16 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.42%) Banking
5 8 (5.80%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.07%) Front Office
7 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) German Language
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Military
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (45.65%) Developer
2 34 (24.64%) Ruby Developer
3 21 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (11.59%) Lead
5 12 (8.70%) Full Stack Developer
5 12 (8.70%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 10 (7.25%) Senior
7 8 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Software Developer
9 6 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.35%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Team Leader
10 5 (3.62%) Architect
10 5 (3.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (2.90%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 4 (2.90%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (32.61%) Ruby on Rails
2 19 (13.77%) .NET
3 12 (8.70%) CSS
3 12 (8.70%) HTML
4 9 (6.52%) Kafka
5 8 (5.80%) Node.js
5 8 (5.80%) React
6 7 (5.07%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.07%) gRPC
6 7 (5.07%) NumPy
6 7 (5.07%) Pandas
6 7 (5.07%) Protocol Buffers
6 7 (5.07%) SciPy
7 6 (4.35%) REST
7 6 (4.35%) Web Services
8 4 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.90%) RESTful
9 3 (2.17%) Apache Beam
9 3 (2.17%) Keycloak
10 2 (1.45%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.25%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.80%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.07%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.35%) Derivative
4 6 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.35%) Equities
4 6 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.35%) Hedge funds
5 5 (3.62%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.17%) PKI
7 3 (2.17%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.45%) Clustering
8 2 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.72%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.52%) Linux
2 5 (3.62%) Windows
3 3 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.17%) Unix
3 3 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.06%) DevOps
2 40 (28.99%) Agile
3 33 (23.91%) CI/CD
4 21 (15.22%) Software Engineering
5 20 (14.49%) Configuration Management
6 18 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 16 (11.59%) Full Stack Development
7 16 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (10.87%) Open Source
9 13 (9.42%) Test Automation
10 12 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (7.97%) Mentoring
11 11 (7.97%) Microservices
12 10 (7.25%) Analytics
12 10 (7.25%) High Availability
13 8 (5.80%) Asset Management
13 8 (5.80%) Continuous Deployment
13 8 (5.80%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (5.07%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 63 (45.65%) Python
2 46 (33.33%) Java
3 33 (23.91%) JavaScript
4 31 (22.46%) Go
5 16 (11.59%) Bash
6 13 (9.42%) C#
6 13 (9.42%) Perl
7 12 (8.70%) Scala
7 12 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.25%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.52%) PHP
10 8 (5.80%) C++
11 7 (5.07%) C
11 7 (5.07%) Groovy
12 6 (4.35%) SQL
13 4 (2.90%) Rust
14 2 (1.45%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.72%) Korn
15 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.72%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 12 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 12 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.07%) Degree
3 3 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.45%) CCNP
4 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.45%) CREST Certified
4 2 (1.45%) OSCP
5 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.62%) QA
3 3 (2.17%) SLA
4 2 (1.45%) NCSC
4 2 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.72%) COPPA
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (25.36%) Docker
2 6 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.62%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.72%) Firmware
5 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (21.01%) Kubernetes
2 28 (20.29%) Terraform
3 23 (16.67%) Ansible
4 15 (10.87%) Puppet
5 14 (10.14%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.62%) Grafana
8 4 (2.90%) Nagios
8 4 (2.90%) Opsgenie
9 3 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.45%) Consul
10 2 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.45%) Graphite
10 2 (1.45%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.45%) Istio
10 2 (1.45%) linkerd
10 2 (1.45%) Packer
10 2 (1.45%) Podman
10 2 (1.45%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.72%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 15 (10.87%) Splunk
2 10 (7.25%) Virgin Media
3 8 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.80%) PagerDuty
4 6 (4.35%) VMware
5 5 (3.62%) New Relic
6 4 (2.90%) Cisco
7 3 (2.17%) Adobe
7 3 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.17%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.17%) SAP
8 2 (1.45%) AlgoSec
8 2 (1.45%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.45%) F5
8 2 (1.45%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.72%) Dell
9 1 (0.72%) HP
9 1 (0.72%) Intel
9 1 (0.72%) Sun