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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 125 152
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 -
Contract jobs citing Rust 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.094% 0.068%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.31% 0.27% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £779 -
25th Percentile £525 £784 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £813 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% - -
75th Percentile £575 £834 -
90th Percentile - £836 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £813 -
% change year-on-year -32.31% - -

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 641 748 1,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.75% 35.27% 37.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 493 731
10th Percentile £386 £401 £400
25th Percentile £463 £484 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £609
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -2.71% +1.50%
75th Percentile £688 £711 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £580 £605
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.17% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £22.05 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.00 £74.38 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +796.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +232.00% -76.19%

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
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 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform