Rust Contracts in England

Rust
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 492 573
Rank change year-on-year +67 +81 +109
Contract jobs citing Rust 55 57 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 0.50% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 42
10th Percentile £409 £450 £391
25th Percentile £522 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £638 £713
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £825 £806 £750
90th Percentile £886 £875 -
UK median daily rate £610 £638 £630
% change year-on-year -4.31% +1.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.51 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% - -
75th Percentile £64.52 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £66.91 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.81 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -23.51% - -

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,571 11,424 16,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.91% 30.63% 34.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,931 8,162 11,760
10th Percentile £355 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £541 £557
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -2.87% +1.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 487 405
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.61 £26.89
25th Percentile £35.75 £51.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £84.85 £77.50 £80.82
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% +18.46%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Rust in England

Rust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rust in England.

Daily rate trend for Rust in England

Rust
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rust in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rust in England

Rust
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Rust in England.

Hourly rate trend for Rust in England

Rust
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Rust in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Rust in England

Rust
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the England region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
London +38 38 £678 +4.23% 293
South East +50 6 £413 - 56
North of England +7 3 £575 +4.55% 37
North East - 2 £575 - 5
South West +41 1 £410 -23.72% 30
North West +13 1 £500 -9.09% 19
Midlands +9 1 - - 26
West Midlands - 1 - - 14
Rust
UK

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.27%) Documentum
1 4 (7.27%) FileNet
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.82%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.82%) Hyperledger
2 1 (1.82%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 26 (47.27%) AWS
2 7 (12.73%) Azure
3 6 (10.91%) Serverless
4 5 (9.09%) GCP
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.27%) GitHub
5 4 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (3.64%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.27%) MySQL
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.82%) Big Data
4 1 (1.82%) GIS
4 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (23.64%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) GitLab
3 2 (3.64%) Hardhat
4 1 (1.82%) MLflow
General
1 23 (41.82%) Finance
2 14 (25.45%) Banking
2 14 (25.45%) Investment Banking
3 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.82%) Front Office
5 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (50.91%) Developer
2 18 (32.73%) Python Developer
3 13 (23.64%) AWS Developer
3 13 (23.64%) JavaScript Developer
4 10 (18.18%) Rust Engineer
5 7 (12.73%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Gen AI Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Documentum Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Rust Software Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Principal Software Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Python Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Blockchain Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Senior
11 1 (1.82%) GIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) React
2 15 (27.27%) NumPy
2 15 (27.27%) Pandas
3 14 (25.45%) AngularJS
3 14 (25.45%) FastAPI
3 14 (25.45%) SciPy
3 14 (25.45%) Vue
4 13 (23.64%) Flask
4 13 (23.64%) Polars
5 8 (14.55%) REST
6 4 (7.27%) LangChain
6 4 (7.27%) Spring
6 4 (7.27%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.45%) Django
7 3 (5.45%) Node.js
7 3 (5.45%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (5.45%) Smart Contracts
7 3 (5.45%) web3js
8 2 (3.64%) Jest
8 2 (3.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 13 (23.64%) Hedge funds
2 12 (21.82%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.27%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.45%) Blockchain
5 3 (5.45%) Derivative
6 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) Web3
7 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.82%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 21 (38.18%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.64%) Windows
4 1 (1.82%) Android
4 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) Software Engineering
2 27 (49.09%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.45%) Data Engineering
3 14 (25.45%) Mathematics
4 13 (23.64%) Clean Code
4 13 (23.64%) Structured Programming
4 13 (23.64%) Systematic Trading
5 11 (20.00%) Agile
5 11 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (14.55%) Machine Learning
7 7 (12.73%) SDLC
8 6 (10.91%) LLM
8 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
9 5 (9.09%) Generative AI
9 5 (9.09%) MLOps
9 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.09%) Scrum
9 5 (9.09%) UML
10 4 (7.27%) Containerisation
10 4 (7.27%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (67.27%) Python
2 23 (41.82%) Java
3 20 (36.36%) C++
4 17 (30.91%) JavaScript
5 14 (25.45%) C#
6 7 (12.73%) Go
7 5 (9.09%) Clojure
7 5 (9.09%) Elixir
7 5 (9.09%) Scala
8 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
9 3 (5.45%) C
9 3 (5.45%) Ruby
10 2 (3.64%) Kotlin
10 2 (3.64%) Solidity
11 1 (1.82%) Bash
11 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Degree
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 18 (32.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (43.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.36%) Terraform
3 5 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (1.82%) Argo
4 1 (1.82%) Grafana
4 1 (1.82%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.64%) Alibaba
3 2 (3.64%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) Foundry
4 1 (1.82%) OpenText
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) SendGrid
4 1 (1.82%) Sophis