Ruby Contracts in the City of London

Ruby
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 127 153
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 -10
Contract jobs citing Ruby 9 23 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.42% 0.83% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 2.38% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 28
10th Percentile £354 £450 £461
25th Percentile £409 £525 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £619 £625 £625
90th Percentile £690 £690 £730
Central London median daily rate £500 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -16.67% +8.11% +2.07%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 746 966 2,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.14% 34.79% 47.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 672 1,331
10th Percentile £406 £400 £425
25th Percentile £484 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £585 £600 £593
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.27% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 19
10th Percentile £51.80 £15.65 £19.95
25th Percentile £74.38 £20.75 £31.75
Median hourly rate £112.00 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +273.33% -42.86% +19.32%
75th Percentile - £39.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - £45.15 £68.35
Central London median hourly rate £41.50 £30.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +38.33% -42.86% +43.84%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Ruby in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ruby in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ruby in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ruby in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Ruby in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Datadog
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) MinIO
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) ObjectStore
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Appium
2 1 (11.11%) Bundler
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) fastlane
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JProfiler
2 1 (11.11%) VisualVM
2 1 (11.11%) YourKit
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) iOS Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (22.22%) Loki
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) Bazel
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Memcached
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (11.11%) SwiftUI
3 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
2 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) Android
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Swift
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Ceph
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ambari
3 1 (11.11%) Ganglia
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (11.11%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
2 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) New Relic
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) PagerDuty
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk