Rust Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Rust
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Rust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rust 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.00% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £491 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 - -

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 405 127 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.99% 34.51% 32.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 94 95
10th Percentile £366 £364 £400
25th Percentile £420 £448 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £520 £445
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +16.80% -25.83%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £581
90th Percentile £615 £650 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -9.52%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Rust job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Rust
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Rust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Rust

Rust
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Sheffield - 11 £538 - 1
Rust
Yorkshire

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Jaeger
General
1 10 (90.91%) Finance
2 8 (72.73%) Financial Institution
2 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Senior
2 6 (54.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Kafka
1 9 (81.82%) Middleware
1 9 (81.82%) OpenTelemetry
1 9 (81.82%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (72.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 11 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 10 (90.91%) Identity Access Management
3 9 (81.82%) API Design
3 9 (81.82%) Application Security
3 9 (81.82%) Computer Science
3 9 (81.82%) Data Modelling
3 9 (81.82%) GAP Analysis
3 9 (81.82%) JVM Tuning
3 9 (81.82%) Microservices
3 9 (81.82%) Observability
4 8 (72.73%) Business Development
4 8 (72.73%) Coaching
4 8 (72.73%) Conflict Resolution
4 8 (72.73%) DevOps
4 8 (72.73%) Mentoring
4 8 (72.73%) Network Load Balancing
4 8 (72.73%) Process Improvement
4 8 (72.73%) Software Delivery
4 8 (72.73%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Go
3 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Grafana
1 9 (81.82%) Kiali
1 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
1 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Google