Ruby Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ruby
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Ruby skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ruby over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 428 199
Rank change year-on-year +42 -229 -98
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 88 131 590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.41% 1.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 1.05% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 31 85 224
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,250 £46,280
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £55,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -16.13%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £142,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Ruby falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7,046 12,420 15,952
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 33.43% 39.17% 46.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,399 9,913 12,874
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £40,018
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Ruby
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ruby as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ruby trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ruby.

Ruby salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Ruby
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ruby over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Ruby salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 7 (7.95%) CMS
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.36%) AWS
2 7 (7.95%) Azure
3 3 (3.41%) GitHub
4 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.14%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Broadband
1 3 (3.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.14%) MySQL
3 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.68%) JIRA
3 3 (3.41%) Git
4 2 (2.27%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.27%) Gatling
4 2 (2.27%) GitLab
4 2 (2.27%) JMeter
4 2 (2.27%) JUnit
4 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.27%) RSpec
4 2 (2.27%) Selenium
4 2 (2.27%) Subversion
4 2 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.09%) Tech for Good
3 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.55%) Finance
4 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (1.14%) Advertising
6 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.14%) Publishing
6 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (19.32%) Developer
2 13 (14.77%) Software Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Lead
4 8 (9.09%) Ruby Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Ruby Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Senior
6 4 (4.55%) Lead Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Systems Developer
8 2 (2.27%) Developer in Test
8 2 (2.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (2.27%) Java Developer in Test
8 2 (2.27%) Java Software Developer
8 2 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.27%) Senior Ruby Developer
8 2 (2.27%) Software Team Leader
8 2 (2.27%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.27%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (61.36%) HTML
2 24 (27.27%) Ruby on Rails
3 15 (17.05%) React
4 8 (9.09%) RESTful
5 6 (6.82%) Node.js
6 5 (5.68%) CSS
7 4 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.41%) Spring
9 2 (2.27%) .NET
9 2 (2.27%) ADO
9 2 (2.27%) Ajax
9 2 (2.27%) CSS3
9 2 (2.27%) Django
9 2 (2.27%) Guice
9 2 (2.27%) HTML5
9 2 (2.27%) JSON
9 2 (2.27%) Play Framework
9 2 (2.27%) React Native
9 2 (2.27%) REST
9 2 (2.27%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.41%) IoT
1 3 (3.41%) Mobile App
1 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
1 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (3.41%) Smart Home
2 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.14%) Housing Association
2 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (56.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 49 (55.68%) Computer Science
2 49 (55.68%) Data Privacy
2 49 (55.68%) Machine Learning
3 22 (25.00%) Agile
4 20 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 14 (15.91%) TDD
6 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (11.36%) Microservices
8 9 (10.23%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.23%) DevOps
9 8 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 7 (7.95%) Architectural Design
10 7 (7.95%) Clean Code
10 7 (7.95%) CRM
10 7 (7.95%) Design Patterns
11 6 (6.82%) Scrum
11 6 (6.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (84.09%) Python
2 61 (69.32%) JavaScript
3 59 (67.05%) C#
3 59 (67.05%) Java
3 59 (67.05%) SQL
4 58 (65.91%) TypeScript
5 53 (60.23%) PHP
6 49 (55.68%) C
6 49 (55.68%) C++
6 49 (55.68%) Dart
6 49 (55.68%) MATLAB
6 49 (55.68%) R
6 49 (55.68%) Rust
7 4 (4.55%) Bash
7 4 (4.55%) Scala
8 2 (2.27%) Bicep
8 2 (2.27%) Elixir
8 2 (2.27%) F#
8 2 (2.27%) Go
9 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 50 (56.82%) Degree
2 49 (55.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Ansible
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.27%) Puppet
2 2 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (2.27%) Google
1 2 (2.27%) Mercator
2 1 (1.14%) Adobe
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.14%) Splunk