Hybrid/Remote Ruby Job Trends

Ruby
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Ruby skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 333 412
Rank change year-on-year -22 +79 -141
Permanent jobs citing Ruby 104 85 80
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 0.52% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 1.67% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 90 31 46
10th Percentile £38,825 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £47,845
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -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 6,121 5,103 9,030
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.57% 31.34% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,573 3,455 6,308
10th Percentile £38,772 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

Ruby
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Ruby job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Ruby
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Ruby
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Ruby over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Ruby salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Ruby
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 (2.88%) WordPress
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 76 (73.08%) AWS
2 36 (34.62%) Serverless
3 31 (29.81%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (24.04%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (24.04%) Amazon ECS
4 25 (24.04%) Amazon S3
4 25 (24.04%) Amazon SQS
5 15 (14.42%) Azure
6 9 (8.65%) GitHub
6 9 (8.65%) SaaS
7 7 (6.73%) GCP
8 6 (5.77%) Heroku
8 6 (5.77%) PaaS
9 5 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.81%) Slack
10 4 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.96%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) Network Security
1 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.96%) Internet
2 1 (0.96%) LAN
2 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.96%) VoIP
2 1 (0.96%) WAN
2 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (49.04%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (24.04%) MongoDB
3 17 (16.35%) Redis
4 8 (7.69%) MySQL
5 2 (1.92%) Big Data
5 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (24.04%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.88%) Claude Code
2 3 (2.88%) Git
3 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 33 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.46%) Legal
3 9 (8.65%) Finance
4 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.77%) Legal Technology
6 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.81%) Tech for Good
7 4 (3.85%) Local Government
7 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.88%) Banking
8 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (62.50%) Developer
2 30 (28.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 24 (23.08%) Ruby Developer
4 20 (19.23%) Senior
5 15 (14.42%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 11 (10.58%) Senior Developer
6 11 (10.58%) Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
7 10 (9.62%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Lead
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) 1st Line Support
11 3 (2.88%) Administrator
11 3 (2.88%) Engineering Manager
11 3 (2.88%) Lead Architect
11 3 (2.88%) Linux Administrator
11 3 (2.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 3 (2.88%) Systems Administrator
11 3 (2.88%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (75.96%) Ruby on Rails
2 43 (41.35%) React
3 27 (25.96%) Node.js
4 25 (24.04%) Jest
5 17 (16.35%) JSON
5 17 (16.35%) JWT
5 17 (16.35%) RESTful
5 17 (16.35%) Sidekiq
6 9 (8.65%) CSS
6 9 (8.65%) OpenAPI
7 7 (6.73%) Terraform
8 6 (5.77%) REST
9 5 (4.81%) .NET
9 5 (4.81%) HTML
9 5 (4.81%) Spring
9 5 (4.81%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.85%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.88%) Nuxt
12 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
13 1 (0.96%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.73%) Blog
2 7 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.73%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.77%) NHS
4 5 (4.81%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.81%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.85%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.88%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.46%) Linux
2 8 (7.69%) Ubuntu
3 7 (6.73%) Windows
4 3 (2.88%) Debian
5 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.31%) Agile
2 40 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (31.73%) Microservices
4 29 (27.88%) CI/CD
5 27 (25.96%) Scrum
6 26 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 25 (24.04%) Mob Programming
8 21 (20.19%) API Design
9 20 (19.23%) Clean Code
10 19 (18.27%) Mentoring
10 19 (18.27%) Software Engineering
11 18 (17.31%) OOP
12 17 (16.35%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (14.42%) DevOps
14 12 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (10.58%) AI
15 11 (10.58%) Roadmaps
16 10 (9.62%) Incident Response
16 10 (9.62%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 26 (25.00%) Python
3 20 (19.23%) Java
4 12 (11.54%) C#
5 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.77%) Bash
6 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.88%) C
7 3 (2.88%) C++
7 3 (2.88%) Go
7 3 (2.88%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.88%) Perl
7 3 (2.88%) PHP
7 3 (2.88%) Rust
8 2 (1.92%) SQL
9 1 (0.96%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 12 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 12 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.77%) Degree
3 3 (2.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.88%) CCSAM
3 3 (2.88%) CREST Certified
3 3 (2.88%) GPEN
3 3 (2.88%) GXPN
3 3 (2.88%) OSCE
3 3 (2.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.96%) GRC
2 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 25 (24.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.77%) Ansible
3 3 (2.88%) Proxmox
3 3 (2.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.85%) Oracle
3 2 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (0.96%) New Relic
4 1 (0.96%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.96%) Salesforce