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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 314 388
Rank change year-on-year +23 +74 +85
Contract jobs citing Ruby on Rails 14 27 65
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.72% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 36
10th Percentile £375 £355 £438
25th Percentile £413 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -24.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £494 £563 £700
90th Percentile £504 £575 -
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -4.55%

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 2,606 3,727 5,945
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.70% 25.23% 24.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,876 2,608 4,458
10th Percentile £358 £350 £385
25th Percentile £418 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £650
90th Percentile £825 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.74% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 94 76
10th Percentile £52.50 £24.68 £25.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - £49.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.85% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.00 £74.06
90th Percentile £87.50 £72.50 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% +23.81%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 3 (21.43%) MySQL
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
1 9 (64.29%) Ruby Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Senior
2 8 (57.14%) Senior Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Senior Ruby Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Ruby Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Node.js
2 4 (28.57%) React
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 2 (14.29%) Vue
5 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (35.71%) OO
3 5 (35.71%) OOA/OOD
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) API Development
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Release Management
5 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
6 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.14%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Ruby
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle