Ruby Engineer Contracts in the South East

Ruby Engineer
England > South East

The median Ruby Engineer daily rate in the South East is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Ruby Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.065% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
England median daily rate £450 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -21.74% +21.05% -13.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 2,799 5,251 5,435
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.30% 94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,820 3,081 3,760
10th Percentile £219 £250 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £604
90th Percentile £661 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 539 244
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.55 £18.43 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.78 £49.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% -2.00% +138.10%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £65.26
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +75.44%

Ruby Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Ruby Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Ruby Engineer in the South East

Ruby Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ruby Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Ruby Engineer in the South East

Ruby Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ruby Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
Hampshire - 1 £537 - 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £450 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £450 - 7
Ruby Engineer
England

Ruby Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 27 June 2025, Ruby Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Ruby Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database

Ruby Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
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