Ruby on Rails Contracts with Work from Home Options

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Ruby on Rails skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 395 467
Rank change year-on-year +75 +72 -101
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 27 71 156
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 1.12% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 47 117
10th Percentile £353 £425 £403
25th Percentile £463 £491 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% +7.62% +17.37%
75th Percentile £569 £700 £688
90th Percentile £575 - £725
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Ruby on Rails is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,628 6,337 13,017
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.12% 25.29% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 4,715 9,595
10th Percentile £335 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £640
90th Percentile £788 £750 £735
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 81 125
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.40
25th Percentile - £43.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Ruby on Rails
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Ruby on Rails as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ruby on Rails trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ruby on Rails
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 on Rails.

Ruby on Rails daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Ruby on Rails daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Ethereum
1 1 (3.70%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) GitHub
2 1 (3.70%) Heroku
2 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
1 1 (3.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) RSpec
2 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
2 1 (3.70%) WebPageTest
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (77.78%) Developer
2 11 (40.74%) Ruby Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (3.70%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) .NET
2 5 (18.52%) React
3 4 (14.81%) Node.js
4 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.11%) RESTful
4 3 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (3.70%) CSS
5 1 (3.70%) HTML
5 1 (3.70%) jQuery
5 1 (3.70%) Polymer
5 1 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (3.70%) Sinatra
5 1 (3.70%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.70%) Blockchain
2 1 (3.70%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) MVC
2 3 (11.11%) TDD
2 3 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
3 2 (7.41%) Agile
3 2 (7.41%) Design Patterns
3 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
3 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
4 1 (3.70%) Backtesting
4 1 (3.70%) CI/CD
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.70%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (3.70%) Cryptocurrency
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection
4 1 (3.70%) Decision-Making
4 1 (3.70%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.70%) High-Frequency Trading
4 1 (3.70%) Open Source
4 1 (3.70%) Pair Programming
4 1 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (3.70%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Ruby
2 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) Java
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) Go
4 2 (7.41%) PHP
4 2 (7.41%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) C++
5 1 (3.70%) Perl
5 1 (3.70%) Rust
5 1 (3.70%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Google
1 1 (3.70%) Splunk