Rust Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Rust
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Rust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rust 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 4.62% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £575 - £675

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 89 79 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 34.23% 45.40% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 70 45
10th Percentile £369 £267 £356
25th Percentile £398 £314 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £365 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% -14.12% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £430 £500
90th Percentile £581 £488 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £495 £402 £425
% change year-on-year +23.13% -5.41% -2.86%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Rust job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Rust
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rust in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Rust in Northamptonshire

Rust
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Northampton - 10 £538 -
Brackley - 2 £575 -
Rust
East Midlands

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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