Ruby on Rails Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 317 410
Rank change year-on-year +21 +93 +61
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 8 28 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.76% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 47
10th Percentile £418 £384 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £700
90th Percentile - £586 -
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Ruby on Rails falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Ruby on Rails
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ruby on Rails as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ruby on Rails trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ruby on Rails
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ruby on Rails.

Ruby on Rails daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ruby on Rails
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) B2B
1 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Fintech
1 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (25.00%) Insurtech
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Microservices
2 1 (12.50%) OO
2 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Ruby
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle