[LRUG] [JOBS] Rails contractor for MVP - Remote but London based

[Andy Mitchell]

That’s very interesting indeed Nick,

I’m assuming that’s a fairly small subset of responses from this thread.

From my experience what is being offered around on jobs sites as the going contract rate is often lower than what can be found through good networks but I don’t see many contracts at all going near the 750 you mention and often closer to £600. (I’m not saying you’re wrong that’s just been my experience which I’ve been doing more in the DevOps space so may be out of touch!)

In fact I’ve been noticing a decline in rates for ruby in recent years. I agree with your view of sometimes a little sharing is good so people know what they are worth so in the view of transparency I’m taking £625 at my current gig.

I think the market in general appears to be struggling at the moment but I wonder if people would be willing to share how they are finding these 750 roles? Are this just inside gigs? Are you all just mega experienced super senior principal level roles? Am I missing a trick?

On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 08:23, Nick Tabernacle <[nick at beo.so](mailto:On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 08:23, Nick Tabernacle <<a href=)> wrote:

> Based on the responses I’ve received and to maintain privacy, £750 is about average. LRUG by its nature has a lot of heavily experienced devs which is why it’s a great resource. In contrast, the London consulting firms will easily charge £1k+ but the dev won’t see much of that. The international outsourcing firms will be cheaper but these devs tend to be code only with little product, architecture or roadmap experience.
>
> I believe Rails pays well because a good dev can deliver you a whole SaaS solution so it’s still cost effective and being able to whiteboard in a room with someone has value over a large offshore team imo.
>
> Nick Tabernacle
> nick at beo.so
>
>> On 31 Jan 2025, at 16:52, Patrick Gleeson <patrick.c.gleeson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Leaning in to this, I'd love to get a feel for what the Ruby contractor market is like at the moment. My last contracting gig (which was also my first contracting gig), was a couple of years on £700/day (but inside IR35 so the headline figure is a bit misleading). I'd love to hear what the range of going rates is at the moment (to be clear, I've got my next thing lined up so this is purely curiosity on my part combined with the general belief that breaking the taboo of discussing compensation is occasionally healthy).
>>
>> Patrick
>> [I don't know what I'm doing, I just make it up as I go along](https://patrickgleeson.com/)
>>
>> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, 11:13 James Darling, < james at abscond.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Whoops, that's embarrassing. 😭
>>>
>>> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 at 10:38, James Darling < james at abscond.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Nick,
>>>>
>>>> I don't think we've met (embarrassing if we have!) but I've been an LRUGer for about 20 years.
>>>>
>>>> This sounds interesting to me, and something I'd definitely be able to help with! Nice to see a project with no React. I live in Leyton and love meeting up, so location is great. I once integrated the dutch payment system iDEAL for a startup via Stripe's API that I believe is still running.
>>>>
>>>> Here's my [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abscond/), [GitHub](https://github.com/james) and [website](https://abscond.org/). I'm currently on £850/day.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> James
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 at 19:21, Nick Tabernacle < nick at beo.so> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi LRUG,
>>>>>
>>>>> As a RoR contractor I've been on the other side of these emails for many years, so it’s nice to be 'giving back' with some contract opportunities directly to this group.
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m looking for a Rails contractor for a two month internal MVP build, likely extended to six months. The client is a multinational non-profit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideal experience:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Rails 7 (and all the obvious things it includes)
>>>>> - >10 years on Rails to a Senior level
>>>>> - Can provide examples of full stack work
>>>>> - Hotwire (more experience the better)
>>>>> - TailwindCSS
>>>>> - Stripe payments
>>>>> - API integration
>>>>> - CI/CD on Azure (essential)
>>>>> - Any Azure knowledge/certificates welcome
>>>>> - Comfortable with the enterprise onboarding process
>>>>> - Remote but will need 2 days a month at our office in Liverpool Street talking around a whiteboard most likely.
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m also looking for someone interested in using AI to improve productivity and share their metrics, for good or bad.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know your desired rate, Linked In || YouTube || Github.
>>>>>
>>>>> No recruiters or recruiting companies please.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks LRUG :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Nick Tabernacle
>>>>> nick at beo.so
>>>>>
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