Rust Contracts in the UK excluding London

Rust
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Rust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rust over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 383 431
Rank change year-on-year +59 +48 +51
Contract jobs citing Rust 16 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.053% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.22% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £408 £478 £329
25th Percentile £410 £519 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% -25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £519
90th Percentile - £643 £568
UK median daily rate £610 £638 £675
% change year-on-year -4.31% -5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £44.51 - -
25th Percentile £44.76 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.81 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.51% - -
75th Percentile £64.52 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £66.11 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.81 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -23.51% - -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,745 4,921 6,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.89% 23.71% 27.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,493 3,294 4,493
10th Percentile £320 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £560 £583 £594
90th Percentile £636 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 429 322
10th Percentile £27.92 £37.54 £26.48
25th Percentile £44.51 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.26% -0.80% +21.95%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Rust in the UK excluding London

Rust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rust in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Rust in the UK excluding London

Rust
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rust in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Rust in the UK excluding London

Rust
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Rust in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Rust in the UK excluding London

Rust
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Rust in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Rust in the UK excluding London

Rust
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
South East +50 6 £413 - 336
Wales - 5 - - 27
North of England +14 3 £575 +4.55% 218
North East - 2 £575 - 26
South West +38 1 £410 -23.72% 132
North West +16 1 £500 -9.09% 104
Midlands +11 1 - - 176
West Midlands - 1 - - 94
Rust
UK

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Documentum
1 3 (18.75%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) GIS
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Rust Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Documentum Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Research Scientist
6 1 (6.25%) GIS Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Rust Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Researcher
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
1 1 (6.25%) Next.js
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Blog
3 2 (12.50%) Cyberattack
3 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
2 5 (31.25%) Scrum
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
2 5 (31.25%) UML
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Content Management
4 3 (18.75%) Data Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
6 1 (6.25%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
3 5 (31.25%) PhD
3 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (12.50%) CCNA
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) OpenText
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) SendGrid