Rust Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Rust
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Rust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 126 144
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 -
Contract jobs citing Rust 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.048% 0.072%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.50% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £519 £775 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £800 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% - -
75th Percentile £575 £825 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £800 -
% change year-on-year -31.25% - -

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 605 728 978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.82% 34.75% 35.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 461 676
10th Percentile £385 £406 £400
25th Percentile £448 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £685 £704 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £831
Central London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £23.90 £51.80 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.25 £74.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +273.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £39.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £45.15
Central London median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.82% +38.33% -42.86%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rust relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Rust job vacancy trend in the City of London

Rust
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Rust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Rust

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Google Gemini
1 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) NestJS
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Trunk-Based Development
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes