Hybrid/Remote Ruby on Rails Job Trends

Ruby on Rails (RoR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Ruby on Rails skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 373 538
Rank change year-on-year +24 +165 -218
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 42 26 33
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.24% 0.20% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 0.64% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 42 22 26
10th Percentile - £51,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -8.77%
75th Percentile £93,125 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,136 4,082 8,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.98% 31.07% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,262 3,269 7,476
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,720 £39,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,375 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% +10.35% -8.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

Ruby on Rails
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ruby on Rails and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Ruby on Rails job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Ruby on Rails
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ruby on Rails.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ruby on Rails over the 6 months to 14 April 2026.

Ruby on Rails salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Ruby on Rails
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.38%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) AWS
2 21 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 21 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 21 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 21 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 21 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (54.76%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (50.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Developer
2 21 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (40.48%) Software Engineer
4 13 (30.95%) Senior
5 12 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Lead
7 4 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Ruby Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (52.38%) Node.js
1 22 (52.38%) React
2 21 (50.00%) Jest
3 7 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 7 (16.67%) React Native
4 2 (4.76%) JSON
4 2 (4.76%) JWT
4 2 (4.76%) RESTful
4 2 (4.76%) Sidekiq
5 1 (2.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (88.10%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (50.00%) Microservices
2 21 (50.00%) Mob Programming
3 17 (40.48%) Software Engineering
4 9 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.52%) Agile
6 4 (9.52%) Architectural Design
6 4 (9.52%) Clean Code
6 4 (9.52%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (4.76%) API Design
7 2 (4.76%) Coaching
7 2 (4.76%) Containerisation
7 2 (4.76%) OOP
7 2 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (4.76%) Scrum
8 1 (2.38%) Code Quality
8 1 (2.38%) Line Management
8 1 (2.38%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) Ruby
2 21 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform