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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 397 464
Rank change year-on-year +15 +67 -22
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 80 23 33
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.77% 0.59% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 76 21 20
10th Percentile £43,547 £52,500 £36,235
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +1.82% +14.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +4.00%

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 4,523 3,878 6,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.02% 23.95% 28.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,347 2,587 4,894
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,050 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 9 September 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 3 (3.75%) WordPress
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 63 (78.75%) AWS
2 31 (38.75%) Serverless
3 28 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (32.50%) Amazon EC2
4 26 (32.50%) Amazon ECS
4 26 (32.50%) Amazon S3
4 26 (32.50%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (12.50%) Azure
6 6 (7.50%) Heroku
7 5 (6.25%) SaaS
8 4 (5.00%) GCP
9 3 (3.75%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (3.75%) GitHub
10 2 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.50%) PaaS
11 1 (1.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (65.00%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (32.50%) MongoDB
3 17 (21.25%) Redis
4 8 (10.00%) MySQL
5 2 (2.50%) Big Data
5 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (32.50%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.75%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.50%) Legal
2 6 (7.50%) Legal Technology
3 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Finance
5 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (80.00%) Developer
2 29 (36.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 23 (28.75%) Ruby Developer
4 16 (20.00%) Senior
5 15 (18.75%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 11 (13.75%) Senior Developer
6 11 (13.75%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (3.75%) React Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Lead
9 2 (2.50%) Python Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Ruby Engineer
10 1 (1.25%) Development Team Leader
10 1 (1.25%) Lead Developer
10 1 (1.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (48.75%) React
2 28 (35.00%) Node.js
3 26 (32.50%) Jest
4 17 (21.25%) JSON
4 17 (21.25%) JWT
4 17 (21.25%) RESTful
4 17 (21.25%) Sidekiq
5 6 (7.50%) REST
6 5 (6.25%) CSS
6 5 (6.25%) HTML
6 5 (6.25%) OpenAPI
6 5 (6.25%) Spring
6 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.75%) Nuxt
7 3 (3.75%) Terraform
8 1 (1.25%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.25%) Next.js
8 1 (1.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.50%) Educational Technology
2 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 33 (41.25%) Agile
3 26 (32.50%) Microservices
3 26 (32.50%) Mob Programming
4 22 (27.50%) Scrum
5 20 (25.00%) API Design
5 20 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 19 (23.75%) Clean Code
7 17 (21.25%) OOP
7 17 (21.25%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 9 (11.25%) AI
10 7 (8.75%) Incident Response
10 7 (8.75%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (7.50%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (7.50%) Software Delivery
11 6 (7.50%) Software Engineering
12 5 (6.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Ruby
2 38 (47.50%) JavaScript
3 10 (12.50%) Python
4 8 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.25%) C#
5 5 (6.25%) Java
6 2 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Ansible
2 3 (3.75%) Proxmox
2 3 (3.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (2.50%) Google
2 1 (1.25%) New Relic
2 1 (1.25%) OpenAI