Rust Contracts in the City of London

Rust
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Rust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rust 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 114 120 177
Rank change year-on-year +6 +57 +12
Contract jobs citing Rust 5 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.32% 0.027%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.71% 0.94% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £711 £780 -
25th Percentile £728 £788 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £800 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +36.17% -11.32%
75th Percentile £803 £831 £631
90th Percentile £824 £835 -
Central London median daily rate £763 £800 £588
% change year-on-year -4.69% +36.17% -11.32%

All Programming Languages
City of London

Rust falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 706 744 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.21% 33.86% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 530 1,040
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Rust in the City of London

Rust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rust in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Rust in the City of London

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (40.00%) Jest
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) NumPy
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SciPy
2 1 (20.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Go
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Clojure
4 1 (20.00%) Elixir
4 1 (20.00%) Haskell
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform