Ruby Contracts in the Midlands

Ruby
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 136 185
Rank change year-on-year +7 +49 -40
Contract jobs citing Ruby 5 21 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.19% 0.64% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 2.43% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 7
10th Percentile £623 £525 £328
25th Percentile £865 - £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £999 £700 £505
Median % change year-on-year +42.71% +38.61% +10.38%
75th Percentile - - £568
90th Percentile - - £610
England median daily rate £513 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +15.00%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 628 865 1,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.39% 26.23% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 634 955
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £378 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £638 £675 £623
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 19
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £17.07
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.25
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% +6.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.38 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.50 £46.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the Midlands

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the Midlands

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the Midlands

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the Midlands

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Midlands +9 4 £999 +42.71% 3
East Midlands +5 1 £475 -32.14% 2
Ruby
England

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DSL
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
1 4 (80.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby on Rails
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian