Rust Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Rust
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Rust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rust 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.12% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 550 685 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.85% 40.27% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 372 477
10th Percentile £322 £326 £363
25th Percentile £402 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% +2.25%
75th Percentile £560 £535 £600
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 14
10th Percentile - £20.58 £29.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £41.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.44 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year +145.13% -61.15% -8.00%
75th Percentile £64.34 £27.07 £60.75
90th Percentile £71.40 £45.00 £70.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Rust job vacancy trend in Scotland

Rust
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Rust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Rust

Rust
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 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
Glasgow - 2 £550 - 1
Rust
UK

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Gradle
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes