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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 389 566
Rank change year-on-year +28 +177 -95
Permanent jobs citing Ruby on Rails 60 29 31
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.19% 0.090%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.69% 0.68% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 57 26 25
10th Percentile - £51,250 £44,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -10.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £63,750 £73,750
% change year-on-year +13.73% -13.56% -1.67%

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 3,552 4,260 9,041
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.04% 28.17% 26.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,594 2,859 7,743
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 12 June 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 2 (3.33%) WordPress
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 48 (80.00%) AWS
2 27 (45.00%) Serverless
3 24 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 24 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 24 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
3 24 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (10.00%) Azure
4 6 (10.00%) Heroku
5 3 (5.00%) GitHub
5 3 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.67%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (68.33%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 9 (15.00%) Redis
4 3 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (3.33%) Big Data
6 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 24 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (5.00%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Legal
2 6 (10.00%) Legal Technology
3 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (68.33%) Developer
2 24 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
4 14 (23.33%) Senior
5 12 (20.00%) Software Engineer
6 10 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Lead
8 2 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Ruby Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Development Team Leader
9 1 (1.67%) Engineering Manager
9 1 (1.67%) Lead Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Senior Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (53.33%) React
2 24 (40.00%) Jest
2 24 (40.00%) Node.js
3 9 (15.00%) JSON
3 9 (15.00%) JWT
3 9 (15.00%) RESTful
3 9 (15.00%) Sidekiq
4 6 (10.00%) REST
5 3 (5.00%) OpenAPI
5 3 (5.00%) Spring
5 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.33%) Nuxt
6 2 (3.33%) React Native
7 1 (1.67%) CSS
7 1 (1.67%) HTML
7 1 (1.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (5.00%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 24 (40.00%) Microservices
2 24 (40.00%) Mob Programming
3 17 (28.33%) Agile
4 12 (20.00%) API Design
4 12 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 11 (18.33%) Containerisation
6 10 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 10 (16.67%) Scrum
7 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (15.00%) OOP
7 9 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (11.67%) AI
8 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
9 5 (8.33%) Incident Response
10 4 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (6.67%) Roadmaps
10 4 (6.67%) Software Delivery
10 4 (6.67%) Workflow
11 3 (5.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (100.00%) Ruby
2 29 (48.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.33%) Python
4 3 (5.00%) C#
4 3 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (21.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Ansible
2 2 (3.33%) Proxmox
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
2 2 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (1.67%) New Relic
1 1 (1.67%) OpenAI