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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 331 352
Rank change year-on-year -71 +21 -71
Contract jobs citing Ruby 140 346 542
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.72% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% 2.11% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 234 391
10th Percentile £365 £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £475 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £673
90th Percentile £740 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% +17.50%
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 median hourly rate £58.22 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.48%

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 11,133 16,431 25,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.15% 34.41% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,040 12,043 19,088
10th Percentile £350 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 394 438
10th Percentile £35.50 £26.48 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.84 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.23
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

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 2 June 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 2 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
London -30 102 £525 -12.50% 86
North of England +7 17 £450 -28.00% 8
North West +5 12 £450 -22.58% 4
South East +3 9 £475 -22.13% 12
Yorkshire +11 5 £600 -14.29% 2
Midlands +9 5 £999 +42.71% 7
West Midlands 0 4 £999 +42.71% 4
South West +9 3 £675 +8.04% 9
East Midlands -2 1 £475 -32.14% 3
East of England -2 1 £700 - 4
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 9 (6.43%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.00%) Apache
3 5 (3.57%) Confluence
3 5 (3.57%) nginx
4 4 (2.86%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (2.86%) WordPress
5 3 (2.14%) CMS
5 3 (2.14%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.43%) Traefik
7 1 (0.71%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.71%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.71%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (41.43%) AWS
2 26 (18.57%) GCP
3 22 (15.71%) Azure
4 12 (8.57%) GitHub
5 10 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (5.71%) SaaS
7 6 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.29%) dbt
8 5 (3.57%) CloudBees
8 5 (3.57%) Datadog
8 5 (3.57%) Serverless
9 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (2.86%) IaaS
9 4 (2.86%) PaaS
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (2.14%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) DNS
2 5 (3.57%) Firewall
3 4 (2.86%) Intranet
4 3 (2.14%) Network Security
4 3 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.14%) VPN
5 2 (1.43%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.43%) DHCP
5 2 (1.43%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.43%) Wireless
6 1 (0.71%) DSL
6 1 (0.71%) Internet
6 1 (0.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.86%) MySQL
3 7 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.29%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (4.29%) Apache Arrow
4 6 (4.29%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (4.29%) Apache Ignite
4 6 (4.29%) Dremio
4 6 (4.29%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.14%) Big Data
6 3 (2.14%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.43%) Git
3 12 (8.57%) JIRA
4 8 (5.71%) GitLab
5 7 (5.00%) fastlane
6 3 (2.14%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.43%) JUnit
7 2 (1.43%) Maven
7 2 (1.43%) Postman
7 2 (1.43%) Selenium
7 2 (1.43%) TestNG
7 2 (1.43%) Travis CI
7 2 (1.43%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.43%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.71%) Finance
3 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.57%) Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Front Office
5 6 (4.29%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.14%) Retail
8 1 (0.71%) Legal
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (43.57%) Developer
2 30 (21.43%) Ruby Developer
3 27 (19.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (10.71%) Lead
5 13 (9.29%) Senior
6 12 (8.57%) Full Stack Developer
7 11 (7.86%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 9 (6.43%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Team Leader
11 5 (3.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) React Developer
12 4 (2.86%) iOS Software Engineer
12 4 (2.86%) Senior Software Developer
12 4 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (2.86%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (30.71%) Ruby on Rails
2 17 (12.14%) .NET
3 11 (7.86%) CSS
3 11 (7.86%) HTML
3 11 (7.86%) Node.js
3 11 (7.86%) React
4 8 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (5.71%) Kafka
5 7 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 7 (5.00%) Bazel
5 7 (5.00%) SwiftUI
6 6 (4.29%) gRPC
6 6 (4.29%) NumPy
6 6 (4.29%) Pandas
6 6 (4.29%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (4.29%) SciPy
6 6 (4.29%) Web Services
7 4 (2.86%) REST
7 4 (2.86%) RESTful
8 3 (2.14%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
1 7 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 7 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.29%) Derivative
2 6 (4.29%) Equities
2 6 (4.29%) Fixed Income
2 6 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (4.29%) Hedge funds
3 5 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.86%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.14%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.14%) PKI
5 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.43%) Clustering
6 2 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.14%) Linux
2 8 (5.71%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.14%) Windows
4 2 (1.43%) CentOS
4 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.43%) Unix
4 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.29%) DevOps
2 39 (27.86%) Agile
3 31 (22.14%) CI/CD
4 25 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 19 (13.57%) Configuration Management
5 19 (13.57%) Full Stack Development
6 18 (12.86%) Containerisation
7 15 (10.71%) Open Source
8 14 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 14 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (9.29%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (9.29%) Test Automation
10 10 (7.14%) High Availability
10 10 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (7.14%) Software Testing
11 9 (6.43%) Analytics
11 9 (6.43%) Microservices
12 8 (5.71%) Continuous Deployment
12 8 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (5.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.43%) Python
2 40 (28.57%) Java
3 36 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 32 (22.86%) Go
5 19 (13.57%) Bash
6 14 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.86%) Perl
7 11 (7.86%) Scala
8 9 (6.43%) C#
8 9 (6.43%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.71%) C++
9 8 (5.71%) PHP
10 7 (5.00%) C
10 7 (5.00%) Swift
11 6 (4.29%) Groovy
12 5 (3.57%) SQL
13 4 (2.86%) Rust
14 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.71%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 16 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) Degree
4 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.43%) CCNP
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.43%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.43%) OSCP
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.86%) QA
3 3 (2.14%) SLA
4 2 (1.43%) NCSC
4 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.71%) COPPA
5 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (27.86%) Docker
2 6 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (2.14%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) Firmware
5 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (23.57%) Kubernetes
2 29 (20.71%) Terraform
3 20 (14.29%) Ansible
4 12 (8.57%) Puppet
5 11 (7.86%) Progress Chef
6 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 5 (3.57%) Grafana
8 4 (2.86%) Kibana
8 4 (2.86%) logstash
8 4 (2.86%) Nagios
8 4 (2.86%) Opsgenie
9 3 (2.14%) Rancher
9 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.43%) Consul
10 2 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.43%) Graphite
10 2 (1.43%) Istio
10 2 (1.43%) linkerd
10 2 (1.43%) Packer
10 2 (1.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (11.43%) Splunk
2 10 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.00%) PagerDuty
4 6 (4.29%) Virgin Media
4 6 (4.29%) VMware
5 5 (3.57%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.86%) New Relic
7 3 (2.14%) Cisco
7 3 (2.14%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.43%) Adobe
8 2 (1.43%) AlgoSec
8 2 (1.43%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.43%) F5
8 2 (1.43%) Google
8 2 (1.43%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.43%) SAP
9 1 (0.71%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.71%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.71%) Turbonomic