Ruby Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ruby
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 257 275 271
Rank change year-on-year +18 -4 -43
Contract jobs citing Ruby 84 187 428
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.78% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 2.15% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 113 309
10th Percentile £350 £425 £434
25th Percentile £463 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £700
90th Percentile £698 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -13.87% -0.83% +18.23%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,080 8,696 16,767
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 36.42% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 6,423 12,512
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 187 184
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.96 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 12 June 2024.

Ruby daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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

Ruby
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 7 (8.33%) Apache
2 6 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.76%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (2.38%) CMS
4 2 (2.38%) WordPress
5 1 (1.19%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.19%) Confluence
5 1 (1.19%) Ethereum
5 1 (1.19%) Hyperledger
5 1 (1.19%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (53.57%) AWS
2 16 (19.05%) GCP
3 11 (13.10%) Azure
4 7 (8.33%) SaaS
5 6 (7.14%) dbt
6 5 (5.95%) GitHub
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
7 4 (4.76%) Datadog
8 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.19%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.19%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.19%) Heroku
10 1 (1.19%) IaaS
10 1 (1.19%) PaaS
10 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Intranet
2 1 (1.19%) DNS
2 1 (1.19%) DSL
2 1 (1.19%) HTTP
2 1 (1.19%) Network Security
2 1 (1.19%) SSL
2 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.19%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) MySQL
2 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (7.14%) Apache Arrow
3 6 (7.14%) Apache Ignite
3 6 (7.14%) Dremio
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.33%) Git
2 7 (8.33%) JIRA
3 6 (7.14%) GitLab
4 3 (3.57%) fastlane
5 2 (2.38%) Selenium
5 2 (2.38%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.19%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.19%) JUnit
6 1 (1.19%) Maven
6 1 (1.19%) Postman
6 1 (1.19%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.19%) RSpec
6 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.19%) TestNG
6 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.19%) WebPageTest
6 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.48%) Finance
3 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.52%) Banking
5 6 (7.14%) Front Office
5 6 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.38%) Retail
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.19%) French Language
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.19%) Military
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (45.24%) Developer
2 17 (20.24%) Ruby Developer
3 14 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Senior
4 7 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 5 (5.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Software Developer
7 4 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (4.76%) React Developer
7 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.57%) iOS Software Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Lead
8 3 (3.57%) Python Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (30.95%) Ruby on Rails
2 11 (13.10%) .NET
2 11 (13.10%) Node.js
3 9 (10.71%) React
4 6 (7.14%) gRPC
4 6 (7.14%) NumPy
4 6 (7.14%) Pandas
4 6 (7.14%) Protocol Buffers
4 6 (7.14%) REST
4 6 (7.14%) RESTful
4 6 (7.14%) SciPy
5 5 (5.95%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.95%) CSS
5 5 (5.95%) HTML
6 4 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.76%) Web Services
7 3 (3.57%) JSON
7 3 (3.57%) SOAP
7 3 (3.57%) XML
7 3 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Derivative
1 6 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (7.14%) Equities
1 6 (7.14%) Fixed Income
1 6 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (7.14%) Hedge funds
2 5 (5.95%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.95%) NHS
3 3 (3.57%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.19%) CBDC
5 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
5 1 (1.19%) PKI
5 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.57%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Unix
3 1 (1.19%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.76%) DevOps
2 17 (20.24%) Agile
3 15 (17.86%) Software Engineering
4 13 (15.48%) CI/CD
5 12 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 10 (11.90%) Configuration Management
7 9 (10.71%) Test Automation
8 8 (9.52%) Analytics
9 7 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (8.33%) TDD
10 6 (7.14%) Asset Management
10 6 (7.14%) Containerisation
10 6 (7.14%) Data Architecture
10 6 (7.14%) Investment Management
10 6 (7.14%) Open Source
10 6 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (7.14%) Product Management
10 6 (7.14%) Software Testing
11 5 (5.95%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 35 (41.67%) Python
2 25 (29.76%) JavaScript
3 18 (21.43%) Go
4 17 (20.24%) Java
5 9 (10.71%) Bash
6 8 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.33%) Perl
8 6 (7.14%) Scala
9 5 (5.95%) C++
10 4 (4.76%) C
10 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 4 (4.76%) SQL
11 3 (3.57%) PHP
11 3 (3.57%) Swift
12 2 (2.38%) C#
13 1 (1.19%) Groovy
13 1 (1.19%) Rust
13 1 (1.19%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) Degree
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.38%) QA
3 1 (1.19%) COPPA
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (17.86%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) vCloud
2 3 (3.57%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.57%) vSphere
3 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.19%) Postfix
4 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (23.81%) Terraform
2 15 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 13 (15.48%) Ansible
4 11 (13.10%) Progress Chef
4 11 (13.10%) Puppet
5 5 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.57%) Autotask
6 3 (3.57%) Nagios
7 2 (2.38%) Grafana
7 2 (2.38%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.19%) Kibana
8 1 (1.19%) logstash
8 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Splunk
2 4 (4.76%) VMware
3 3 (3.57%) Arista
3 3 (3.57%) BMC
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.57%) New Relic
3 3 (3.57%) PagerDuty
3 3 (3.57%) Remedy
3 3 (3.57%) TOWER Software
4 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle
5 1 (1.19%) Rollbar