Ruby Contracts

Ruby
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 343 346
Rank change year-on-year -77 +3 -60
Contract jobs citing Ruby 183 395 689
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.71% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 2.08% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 262 485
10th Percentile £383 £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £475 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% - +18.81%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £688
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £611 £600
% change year-on-year -14.11% +1.88% +29.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £53.39 - -
25th Percentile £54.73 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £58.22 - £26.00
75th Percentile £60.45 - £26.50
90th Percentile £61.04 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.48%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,047 18,952 31,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.12% 34.11% 36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,199 13,649 23,126
10th Percentile £350 £381 £388
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £663
90th Percentile £763 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 440 496
10th Percentile £31.95 £29.71 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
Median % change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.31
90th Percentile £76.63 £78.12 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +25.00%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the UK

Ruby
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 June 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
England -72 143 £500 -16.67% 119
London -46 105 £513 -14.58% 75
Work from Home +12 83 £525 -12.50% 94
UK excluding London +14 47 £525 -14.11% 53
North of England +3 16 £450 -28.00% 14
North West +3 11 £450 -20.88% 9
Scotland +46 10 £623 +24.50% 6
South East +8 9 £475 -22.13% 13
Midlands +6 5 £999 +42.71% 7
Yorkshire +2 5 £600 -14.29% 4
South West +12 4 £700 +12.00% 8
West Midlands -2 4 £999 +42.71% 4
Wales +19 2 £488 -15.22% 2
East Midlands 0 1 £475 -32.14% 3
East of England -8 1 £700 - 3

Ruby
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.83%) Apache
3 6 (3.28%) Confluence
4 5 (2.73%) nginx
5 4 (2.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.64%) CMS
6 3 (1.64%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.64%) WordPress
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.55%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.55%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (40.44%) AWS
2 28 (15.30%) GCP
3 24 (13.11%) Azure
4 14 (7.65%) GitHub
5 13 (7.10%) SaaS
6 12 (6.56%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.28%) dbt
9 6 (3.28%) IaaS
9 6 (3.28%) PaaS
9 6 (3.28%) Serverless
10 5 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.73%) CloudBees
10 5 (2.73%) Datadog
10 5 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.19%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.19%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (2.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.01%) Firewall
2 6 (3.28%) DNS
3 3 (1.64%) Intranet
3 3 (1.64%) Network Security
3 3 (1.64%) VPN
4 2 (1.09%) BIG-IP
4 2 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.09%) Wireless
5 1 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.55%) DSL
5 1 (0.55%) HTTP
5 1 (0.55%) SAN
5 1 (0.55%) SSL
5 1 (0.55%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (9.29%) MySQL
3 7 (3.83%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (3.28%) Apache Arrow
4 6 (3.28%) Apache Ignite
4 6 (3.28%) Dremio
4 6 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.19%) Big Data
7 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.64%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (19.13%) Jenkins
2 30 (16.39%) Git
3 16 (8.74%) JIRA
4 11 (6.01%) GitLab
4 11 (6.01%) Maven
5 8 (4.37%) Gradle
6 7 (3.83%) fastlane
7 4 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.19%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.64%) Selenium
8 3 (1.64%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.64%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.09%) Capybara
9 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.09%) JUnit
9 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.09%) TestNG
9 2 (1.09%) Travis CI
9 2 (1.09%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (17.49%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.38%) Finance
3 16 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.56%) Banking
5 6 (3.28%) Front Office
5 6 (3.28%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.64%) Retail
7 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.09%) Wearables
9 1 (0.55%) French Language
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
9 1 (0.55%) Military
9 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (40.98%) Developer
2 37 (20.22%) Ruby Developer
3 35 (19.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (9.84%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 17 (9.29%) Lead
5 17 (9.29%) Senior
6 12 (6.56%) Full Stack Developer
7 10 (5.46%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (4.92%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.28%) Team Leader
12 5 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.73%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 5 (2.73%) React Developer
12 5 (2.73%) Senior Ruby Developer
12 5 (2.73%) Site Manager
12 5 (2.73%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (31.15%) Ruby on Rails
2 21 (11.48%) .NET
3 18 (9.84%) Node.js
3 18 (9.84%) React
4 11 (6.01%) CSS
4 11 (6.01%) HTML
5 10 (5.46%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (4.92%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.37%) Kafka
7 8 (4.37%) REST
8 7 (3.83%) Bazel
8 7 (3.83%) RESTful
8 7 (3.83%) SwiftUI
9 6 (3.28%) gRPC
9 6 (3.28%) NumPy
9 6 (3.28%) Pandas
9 6 (3.28%) Protocol Buffers
9 6 (3.28%) SciPy
9 6 (3.28%) Web Services
10 4 (2.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.46%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.83%) NHS
3 7 (3.83%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.28%) Derivative
4 6 (3.28%) Equities
4 6 (3.28%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.28%) Hedge funds
4 6 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.19%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.64%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.09%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.38%) Linux
2 10 (5.46%) Unix
2 10 (5.46%) Windows
3 8 (4.37%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) CentOS
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (34.43%) DevOps
2 50 (27.32%) Agile
3 43 (23.50%) CI/CD
4 31 (16.94%) Software Engineering
5 27 (14.75%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (11.48%) Configuration Management
8 20 (10.93%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (9.84%) Open Source
10 17 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (8.74%) Containerisation
11 16 (8.74%) Mentoring
12 15 (8.20%) Test Automation
13 14 (7.65%) TDD
14 12 (6.56%) Continuous Deployment
15 10 (5.46%) Deployment Automation
15 10 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (5.46%) Software Testing
16 9 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (4.92%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 83 (45.36%) Python
2 47 (25.68%) JavaScript
3 45 (24.59%) Java
4 35 (19.13%) Go
5 30 (16.39%) Bash
6 18 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.10%) Groovy
8 12 (6.56%) Perl
9 11 (6.01%) Scala
10 9 (4.92%) C#
10 9 (4.92%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.92%) Shell Script
11 8 (4.37%) C
11 8 (4.37%) C++
11 8 (4.37%) PHP
12 7 (3.83%) SQL
12 7 (3.83%) Swift
13 4 (2.19%) Rust
14 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.55%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 20 (10.93%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.92%) Degree
4 4 (2.19%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (2.19%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.19%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.09%) CCNP
5 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.09%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.09%) OSCP
6 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.19%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.19%) QA
3 3 (1.64%) SLA
4 1 (0.55%) COPPA
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (25.68%) Docker
2 6 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.19%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.19%) vSphere
5 3 (1.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.64%) vCloud
6 1 (0.55%) Firmware
6 1 (0.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 48 (26.23%) Kubernetes
2 44 (24.04%) Terraform
3 32 (17.49%) Ansible
4 16 (8.74%) Progress Chef
4 16 (8.74%) Puppet
5 8 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.28%) Grafana
7 5 (2.73%) Kibana
7 5 (2.73%) logstash
8 4 (2.19%) Nagios
8 4 (2.19%) Opsgenie
8 4 (2.19%) Rancher
9 3 (1.64%) Autotask
9 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.55%) Consul
10 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.55%) Istio
10 1 (0.55%) linkerd
10 1 (0.55%) Podman
10 1 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (8.74%) Splunk
2 11 (6.01%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.37%) VMware
4 7 (3.83%) Virgin Media
5 6 (3.28%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.28%) PagerDuty
6 4 (2.19%) New Relic
7 3 (1.64%) Arista
7 3 (1.64%) BMC
7 3 (1.64%) Cisco
7 3 (1.64%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.64%) Google
7 3 (1.64%) Remedy
7 3 (1.64%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.09%) AlgoSec
8 2 (1.09%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.09%) F5
8 2 (1.09%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.55%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.55%) Rollbar