Rust Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Rust
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Rust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rust 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.15% - 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.38% - 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £675
75th Percentile £588 - £688
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £620 £650
% change year-on-year -7.26% -4.62% +1.65%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 223 129 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.46% 25.24% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 103 143
10th Percentile £363 £295 £288
25th Percentile £402 £353 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £420 £440
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -4.55% +0.57%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £600 £545 £625
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile £17.02 £13.98 £14.65
25th Percentile £21.68 £15.56 £20.82
Median hourly rate £42.71 £18.20 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +134.66% -27.20% -50.00%
75th Percentile £79.94 £20.60 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.25 £22.04 £36.98
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.05
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.38% -2.32%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Rust job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Rust
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Rust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Rust

Rust
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rust in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Rust in the East Midlands

Rust
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 12 £575 -
Rust
England

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (25.00%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Parquet
2 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (25.00%) Big Data
3 3 (25.00%) Metabase
3 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
1 12 (100.00%) Software Developer
2 9 (75.00%) Rust Developer
3 5 (41.67%) Python Developer
4 3 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (25.00%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) Plotly
2 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Microservices
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) OOP
5 1 (8.33%) Asynchronous Programming
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
5 1 (8.33%) Multithreading
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C#
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) MATLAB
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft