Rust Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Rust
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Rust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -58 - -
Contract jobs citing Rust 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.052% 0.053% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.22% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
England median daily rate £588 £615 £638
% change year-on-year -4.47% -3.53% +6.25%

All Programming Languages
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 896 483 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.20% 25.66% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 320 448
10th Percentile £358 £306 £260
25th Percentile £411 £374 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.22% -7.88%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £570
90th Percentile £625 £650 £641
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 24
10th Percentile £19.80 £15.58 £17.58
25th Percentile £25.47 £17.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £58.00 £18.74 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +209.50% -46.84% +5.59%
75th Percentile £75.63 £23.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £83.45 £28.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Rust job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Rust
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Rust
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
East Midlands - 2 £375 - 7
Rust
England

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Superset
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Parquet
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Metabase
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft