Ruby Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ruby
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 350 370
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -46
Contract jobs citing Ruby 46 87 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.33% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 63 88
10th Percentile £413 £411 £375
25th Percentile £446 £494 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.08% +1.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £681 £700 £704
UK median daily rate £519 £595 £586
% change year-on-year -12.82% +1.54% +17.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.22%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,792 6,563 8,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 28.64% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,233 4,627 6,147
10th Percentile £313 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.01% +15.38%
75th Percentile £586 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 329 334
10th Percentile £37.63 £23.08 £17.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £29.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +24.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.53
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £50.35
% change year-on-year +2.97% +20.56% +17.45%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the UK excluding London

Ruby
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England -3 19 £450 -28.00% 14
North West +10 14 £450 -26.53% 6
Scotland +47 10 £623 +24.50% 6
South East +10 9 £475 -22.13% 30
Yorkshire +8 5 £600 -14.29% 6
Midlands +6 5 £999 +42.71% 5
West Midlands 0 4 £999 +42.71% 3
Wales +20 2 £488 -15.22%
South West +6 1 - - 11
East Midlands +5 1 £475 -32.14% 2
Ruby
UK

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (10.87%) nginx
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.52%) Jupyter
3 2 (4.35%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 23 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (17.39%) OpenShift
3 6 (13.04%) SaaS
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (10.87%) Azure
4 5 (10.87%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) CloudBees
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.52%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.52%) Datadog
6 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (6.52%) IaaS
6 3 (6.52%) PaaS
6 3 (6.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) Firewall
2 3 (6.52%) Network Security
2 3 (6.52%) VPN
3 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 2 (4.35%) DSL
3 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (6.52%) ClickHouse
2 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 10 (21.74%) Git
3 9 (19.57%) Maven
4 8 (17.39%) Gradle
5 6 (13.04%) GitLab
6 3 (6.52%) Visual Studio
7 2 (4.35%) Capybara
7 2 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 5 (10.87%) Finance
1 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) Lead
4 8 (17.39%) Ruby Developer
5 7 (15.22%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Site Manager
6 5 (10.87%) Site Reliability Manager
7 4 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Team Leader
8 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Full Stack Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior
9 2 (4.35%) Technical Leader
9 2 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Database Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Penetration Tester
10 1 (2.17%) Tester
10 1 (2.17%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) Ruby on Rails
2 7 (15.22%) .NET
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Beam
3 3 (6.52%) Kafka
3 3 (6.52%) Keycloak
3 3 (6.52%) React
3 3 (6.52%) Web Services
4 2 (4.35%) cloud-init
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.35%) WebKit
5 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.17%) CSS
5 1 (2.17%) HTML
5 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Public Cloud
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.52%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Clustering
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) PKI
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Windows
3 7 (15.22%) Unix
4 2 (4.35%) CentOS
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) DevOps
2 19 (41.30%) CI/CD
3 15 (32.61%) Agile
4 12 (26.09%) Configuration Management
4 12 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
6 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (15.22%) Application Security
8 7 (15.22%) High Availability
8 7 (15.22%) OWASP
9 6 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (13.04%) Open Source
10 5 (10.87%) Cloud Security
10 5 (10.87%) Continuous Deployment
10 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
10 5 (10.87%) Service-Level Objective
10 5 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) Python
2 15 (32.61%) Java
3 14 (30.43%) Bash
4 11 (23.91%) Groovy
5 8 (17.39%) Shell Script
6 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
7 6 (13.04%) Go
8 4 (8.70%) C
8 4 (8.70%) C#
8 4 (8.70%) C++
8 4 (8.70%) Perl
8 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 4 (8.70%) Scala
9 3 (6.52%) PHP
10 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
1 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
1 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) CREST Certified
3 1 (2.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
1 3 (6.52%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (54.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (41.30%) Terraform
3 17 (36.96%) Ansible
4 6 (13.04%) Puppet
5 5 (10.87%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.52%) Grafana
6 3 (6.52%) Nagios
6 3 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (4.35%) Consul
7 2 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (4.35%) Graphite
7 2 (4.35%) HAProxy
7 2 (4.35%) Istio
7 2 (4.35%) linkerd
7 2 (4.35%) Packer
7 2 (4.35%) Podman
7 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.35%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.17%) CFEngine
8 1 (2.17%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) Splunk
1 5 (10.87%) VMware
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) New Relic
3 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.35%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.17%) Virgin Media