Ruby Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ruby
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 355 367
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -20
Contract jobs citing Ruby 47 75 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 1.19% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 55 81
10th Percentile £421 £411 £375
25th Percentile £450 £506 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.08% +29.03%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £650
90th Percentile £700 - £713
UK median daily rate £513 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -13.87% -0.83% +18.23%
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 £58.22 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.48%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,046 6,305 8,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 27.78% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,405 6,152
10th Percentile £320 £338 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 323 327
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.68 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £78.00 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 12 June 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 12 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
North of England -4 16 £450 -28.00% 11
North West +6 11 £450 -26.53% 6
Scotland +55 10 £623 +24.50% 9
South East +8 9 £475 -22.13% 13
Yorkshire +4 5 £600 -14.29% 4
Midlands +1 5 £999 +42.71% 7
West Midlands +3 4 £999 +42.71% 4
South West +2 4 £700 +12.00% 8
Wales +21 2 £488 -15.22% 4
East Midlands -5 1 £475 -32.14% 3
East of England -5 1 £700 - 3
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 4 (8.51%) Confluence
1 4 (8.51%) nginx
2 3 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.38%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.13%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 20 (42.55%) AWS
2 12 (25.53%) OpenShift
3 8 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (12.77%) SaaS
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.51%) Azure
5 4 (8.51%) CloudBees
5 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.38%) Datadog
6 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (6.38%) IaaS
6 3 (6.38%) PaaS
6 3 (6.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) Network Security
2 3 (6.38%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) DNS
3 1 (2.13%) DSL
3 1 (2.13%) SAN
3 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (8.51%) Big Data
1 4 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (8.51%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (6.38%) ClickHouse
2 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) Jenkins
2 13 (27.66%) Git
3 9 (19.15%) Maven
4 8 (17.02%) Gradle
5 5 (10.64%) GitLab
5 5 (10.64%) JIRA
6 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket
6 4 (8.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio
8 2 (4.26%) Capybara
General
1 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.38%) Banking
2 3 (6.38%) Finance
2 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Developer
1 12 (25.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Lead
3 8 (17.02%) Ruby Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Site Manager
5 5 (10.64%) Site Reliability Manager
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Team Leader
7 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior
8 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.13%) Database Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Penetration Tester
9 1 (2.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Senior UX Designer
9 1 (2.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) Ruby on Rails
2 7 (14.89%) .NET
2 7 (14.89%) React
3 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (8.51%) Node.js
4 3 (6.38%) Apache Beam
4 3 (6.38%) Kafka
4 3 (6.38%) Keycloak
4 3 (6.38%) Web Services
5 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.26%) WebKit
6 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.13%) cloud-init
6 1 (2.13%) CSS
6 1 (2.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Public Cloud
2 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.38%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.04%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Windows
3 6 (12.77%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) CentOS
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) DevOps
2 18 (38.30%) Agile
3 16 (34.04%) CI/CD
4 11 (23.40%) Configuration Management
4 11 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (21.28%) Full Stack Development
5 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
7 8 (17.02%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (17.02%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (14.89%) Application Security
8 7 (14.89%) High Availability
8 7 (14.89%) OWASP
9 6 (12.77%) Open Source
10 5 (10.64%) Data Protection
10 5 (10.64%) Service-Level Objective
10 5 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (8.51%) Cloud Security
11 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (59.57%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) Bash
3 15 (31.91%) Java
4 11 (23.40%) Groovy
4 11 (23.40%) JavaScript
5 8 (17.02%) Shell Script
6 5 (10.64%) Go
7 4 (8.51%) C
7 4 (8.51%) C#
7 4 (8.51%) C++
7 4 (8.51%) Perl
7 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
7 4 (8.51%) Scala
7 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
8 3 (6.38%) PHP
9 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.13%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.13%) OSCP
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
2 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (55.32%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (6.38%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (59.57%) Kubernetes
2 18 (38.30%) Terraform
3 15 (31.91%) Ansible
4 4 (8.51%) Kibana
4 4 (8.51%) logstash
4 4 (8.51%) Progress Chef
4 4 (8.51%) Puppet
4 4 (8.51%) Rancher
5 3 (6.38%) Grafana
5 3 (6.38%) Nagios
5 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.13%) Consul
6 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.13%) Graphite
6 1 (2.13%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.13%) Istio
6 1 (2.13%) linkerd
6 1 (2.13%) Podman
6 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Atlassian
2 4 (8.51%) Splunk
2 4 (8.51%) VMware
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.38%) New Relic
4 1 (2.13%) BT
4 1 (2.13%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.13%) Virgin Media