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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 378 187
Rank change year-on-year +47 -191 -55
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 66 222 793
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.66% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 1.61% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 56 124 302
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,375 £45,051
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £142,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +7.14%

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 5,974 13,779 21,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.95% 40.72% 49.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 11,434 15,507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
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 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £100,000 £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 1 May 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 3 (4.55%) CMS
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.27%) AWS
2 15 (22.73%) Azure
3 10 (15.15%) GitHub
4 3 (4.55%) GCP
4 3 (4.55%) Heroku
5 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.03%) SaaS
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.03%) MySQL
3 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.52%) FileMaker
4 1 (1.52%) Power Query
4 1 (1.52%) Redis
4 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.12%) JIRA
3 7 (10.61%) TeamCity
4 4 (6.06%) Git
5 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.03%) fastlane
5 2 (3.03%) Gatling
5 2 (3.03%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) JMeter
5 2 (3.03%) JUnit
5 2 (3.03%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.03%) Selenium
5 2 (3.03%) Subversion
5 2 (3.03%) webpack
6 1 (1.52%) RSpec
General
1 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Finance
3 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 8 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (10.61%) Tech for Good
6 4 (6.06%) Banking
6 4 (6.06%) Legal
7 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Health Technology
7 3 (4.55%) Retail
8 2 (3.03%) Marketing
9 1 (1.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (40.91%) Senior
2 26 (39.39%) Software Engineer
3 25 (37.88%) Developer
4 16 (24.24%) Senior Developer
5 14 (21.21%) Lead
6 13 (19.70%) Ruby Developer
7 10 (15.15%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (13.64%) Senior Ruby Developer
9 8 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (12.12%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (12.12%) Principal Software Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) React Developer
11 4 (6.06%) Ruby Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior React Developer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
11 4 (6.06%) Software Developer
12 3 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
13 2 (3.03%) Java Software Developer
13 2 (3.03%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (43.94%) Ruby on Rails
2 23 (34.85%) React
3 13 (19.70%) RESTful
4 12 (18.18%) Node.js
5 9 (13.64%) HTML
6 8 (12.12%) CSS
6 8 (12.12%) Flutter
7 7 (10.61%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.58%) .NET
8 5 (7.58%) ADO
9 4 (6.06%) JSON
9 4 (6.06%) REST
10 3 (4.55%) YAML
11 2 (3.03%) Ajax
11 2 (3.03%) CSS3
11 2 (3.03%) Django
11 2 (3.03%) Guice
11 2 (3.03%) Kafka
11 2 (3.03%) Spring
11 2 (3.03%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.06%) Housing Association
2 4 (6.06%) NHS
2 4 (6.06%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.03%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.03%) IoT
5 1 (1.52%) Blog
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Android
2 4 (6.06%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (51.52%) Software Engineering
2 20 (30.30%) Agile
3 19 (28.79%) Mentoring
4 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 15 (22.73%) Microservices
6 13 (19.70%) Design Patterns
7 12 (18.18%) Coaching
8 10 (15.15%) Configuration Management
8 10 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (15.15%) Roadmaps
8 10 (15.15%) Unit Testing
9 9 (13.64%) Clean Code
9 9 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (13.64%) DevOps
9 9 (13.64%) Scrum
9 9 (13.64%) TDD
9 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
10 8 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (12.12%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.03%) Python
2 29 (43.94%) JavaScript
3 16 (24.24%) C#
4 15 (22.73%) Java
5 14 (21.21%) Go
6 9 (13.64%) Bash
6 9 (13.64%) TypeScript
7 8 (12.12%) Rust
8 7 (10.61%) Bicep
8 7 (10.61%) C
8 7 (10.61%) C++
8 7 (10.61%) Perl
9 5 (7.58%) SQL
10 4 (6.06%) Scala
11 2 (3.03%) Elixir
11 2 (3.03%) F#
11 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.52%) Dart
12 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (21.21%) Terraform
2 12 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.12%) Ansible
4 7 (10.61%) Progress Chef
4 7 (10.61%) Puppet
5 1 (1.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (3.03%) Google
1 2 (3.03%) Mercator
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.52%) Splunk