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 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 267 257 263
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -40
Contract jobs citing Ruby 78 209 445
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.85% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.56% 2.30% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 135 324
10th Percentile £350 £425 £432
25th Percentile £463 £478 £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 £779 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £519 £595 £586
% change year-on-year -12.82% +1.54% +17.20%

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 5,012 9,105 16,912
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.10% 37.13% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,645 6,690 12,586
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 193 190
10th Percentile £33.13 £27.83 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £50.35
% change year-on-year +2.97% +20.56% +17.45%

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

Ruby
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 21 May 2024.

Ruby daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ruby
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 (10.26%) Apache
2 7 (8.97%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.41%) WordPress
4 4 (5.13%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (2.56%) CMS
6 1 (1.28%) Confluence
6 1 (1.28%) Ethereum
6 1 (1.28%) Hyperledger
6 1 (1.28%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (57.69%) AWS
2 16 (20.51%) GCP
3 11 (14.10%) Azure
4 7 (8.97%) dbt
4 7 (8.97%) SaaS
5 4 (5.13%) Datadog
5 4 (5.13%) GitHub
6 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.56%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.28%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.28%) Heroku
8 1 (1.28%) IaaS
8 1 (1.28%) PaaS
8 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) Intranet
2 1 (1.28%) DNS
2 1 (1.28%) DSL
2 1 (1.28%) HTTP
2 1 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.28%) NAS
2 1 (1.28%) Network Security
2 1 (1.28%) SSL
2 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.28%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.38%) MySQL
2 7 (8.97%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (8.97%) Apache Arrow
2 7 (8.97%) Apache Ignite
2 7 (8.97%) Dremio
2 7 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.28%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.97%) JIRA
3 5 (6.41%) Git
4 4 (5.13%) GitLab
5 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.28%) RSpec
5 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.28%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.28%) WebPageTest
General
1 14 (17.95%) Finance
2 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.10%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.26%) Banking
5 7 (8.97%) Front Office
5 7 (8.97%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.28%) French Language
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (51.28%) Developer
2 17 (21.79%) Ruby Developer
3 10 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 6 (7.69%) Senior
4 6 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 5 (6.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (5.13%) React Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.13%) WordPress Developer
7 3 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Lead
8 2 (2.56%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (2.56%) Cloud Consultant
8 2 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 14 (17.95%) .NET
3 9 (11.54%) Node.js
4 8 (10.26%) React
5 7 (8.97%) gRPC
5 7 (8.97%) NumPy
5 7 (8.97%) Pandas
5 7 (8.97%) Protocol Buffers
5 7 (8.97%) SciPy
6 6 (7.69%) CSS
6 6 (7.69%) HTML
6 6 (7.69%) RESTful
7 5 (6.41%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.13%) REST
8 4 (5.13%) Web Services
9 3 (3.85%) JSON
9 3 (3.85%) SOAP
9 3 (3.85%) XML
9 3 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Derivative
1 6 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (7.69%) Equities
1 6 (7.69%) Fixed Income
1 6 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (7.69%) Hedge funds
2 5 (6.41%) NHS
3 4 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.28%) CBDC
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.28%) PKI
5 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Linux
1 2 (2.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.28%) Unix
2 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.92%) DevOps
2 18 (23.08%) Agile
3 14 (17.95%) CI/CD
4 11 (14.10%) Software Engineering
5 9 (11.54%) Analytics
5 9 (11.54%) Configuration Management
6 8 (10.26%) Mentoring
7 7 (8.97%) Asset Management
7 7 (8.97%) Data Architecture
7 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (8.97%) TDD
7 7 (8.97%) Test Automation
8 6 (7.69%) Containerisation
8 6 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (7.69%) Investment Management
8 6 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (7.69%) Product Management
9 5 (6.41%) MVC
9 5 (6.41%) Open Source
9 5 (6.41%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.46%) Python
2 24 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 17 (21.79%) Java
4 16 (20.51%) Go
5 9 (11.54%) TypeScript
6 8 (10.26%) Bash
7 7 (8.97%) Perl
7 7 (8.97%) Scala
8 5 (6.41%) C++
8 5 (6.41%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.41%) SQL
9 3 (3.85%) C
9 3 (3.85%) PHP
10 2 (2.56%) C#
11 1 (1.28%) Groovy
11 1 (1.28%) Rust
11 1 (1.28%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) COPPA
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (17.95%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) vCloud
2 3 (3.85%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.85%) vSphere
3 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.28%) Postfix
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (21.79%) Terraform
2 13 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 12 (15.38%) Ansible
3 12 (15.38%) Progress Chef
4 11 (14.10%) Puppet
5 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.85%) Autotask
6 3 (3.85%) Nagios
7 2 (2.56%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.28%) CFEngine
8 1 (1.28%) Grafana
8 1 (1.28%) Kibana
8 1 (1.28%) logstash
8 1 (1.28%) PowerBroker
8 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (11.54%) Splunk
2 4 (5.13%) VMware
3 3 (3.85%) Arista
3 3 (3.85%) BMC
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.85%) New Relic
3 3 (3.85%) PagerDuty
3 3 (3.85%) Remedy
3 3 (3.85%) TOWER Software
4 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle
5 1 (1.28%) Rollbar