Rust Contract Job Trends in Merton

Rust
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merton requiring Rust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rust 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merton 12.00% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South London median daily rate - - £625
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.50 - -
Median hourly rate £66.00 - -
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £66.00 - -

All Programming Languages
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 20.00% 25.93% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £190 £430
25th Percentile £213 £208 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £250 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -50.00% -
75th Percentile £238 £375 £510
90th Percentile - £443 £516
South London median daily rate £525 £625 £531
% change year-on-year -16.00% +17.65% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile £57.84 - £40.82
25th Percentile £62.76 - £49.88
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.69%
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £66.58
South London median hourly rate £66.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +24.69%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Rust job vacancy trend in Merton

Rust
Contract Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the Merton region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
New Malden - 3 - - 3
Rust
South London

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Rust Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Rust Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) UML
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared