Rust
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Rust skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Rust over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 627 762
Rank change year-on-year +93 +135 -117
Contract jobs citing Rust 52 71 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 63 82
10th Percentile £481 £400 £411
25th Percentile £525 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £825 £750 £700
90th Percentile £875 - £891
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £450 £588
% change year-on-year +36.11% -23.40% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.56
25th Percentile £61.25 - £55.16
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £60.63
75th Percentile £63.75 - £66.41
90th Percentile - - £68.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

Rust is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,729 20,225 31,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.60% 34.77% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,058 14,580 23,147
10th Percentile £350 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 464 510
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.16 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.36 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +23.68% +16.28%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £78.00 £72.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +21.95%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Rust in the UK

Rust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Rust.

Daily rate trend for Rust in the UK

Rust
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Rust over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Rust in the UK

Rust
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Rust.

Hourly rate trend for Rust in the UK

Rust
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
England +92 47 £663 -3.64% 101
London +80 40 £698 -7.00% 72
Work from Home +88 15 £550 -26.67% 45
UK excluding London +65 8 £613 +36.11% 32
North of England +22 2 £550 +63.20% 9
East of England +9 2 - - 9
Scotland - 2 - - 2
North West +19 1 £550 +63.20% 7
South East - 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £675 -
Midlands - 1 £675 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (11.54%) Confluence
2 4 (7.69%) nginx
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) Azure
2 18 (34.62%) AWS
3 16 (30.77%) GitHub
4 13 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.62%) GCP
6 3 (5.77%) SaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.92%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) IPv4
2 2 (3.85%) RS-485
3 1 (1.92%) DHCP
3 1 (1.92%) DNS
3 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (13.46%) MySQL
3 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.92%) Big Data
5 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.92%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) JIRA
3 2 (3.85%) Darcs
3 2 (3.85%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.92%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.92%) Travis CI
General
1 27 (51.92%) Finance
2 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Front Office
4 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 4 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 4 (7.69%) Games
5 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.85%) Electronics
6 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Retail
7 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (50.00%) Developer
2 20 (38.46%) Senior
3 17 (32.69%) Software Engineer
4 11 (21.15%) Rust Engineer
5 10 (19.23%) Quantitative Developer
5 10 (19.23%) Rust Software Engineer
5 10 (19.23%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) Senior Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Senior Quantitative Developer
8 5 (9.62%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Lead
8 5 (9.62%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Python Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Python Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) Rust Developer
10 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) NumPy
1 12 (23.08%) Pandas
1 12 (23.08%) SciPy
2 8 (15.38%) REST
3 5 (9.62%) Kafka
4 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.77%) React
4 3 (5.77%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (3.85%) .NET
5 2 (3.85%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.85%) CSS
5 2 (3.85%) Django
5 2 (3.85%) HTML
5 2 (3.85%) Node.js
5 2 (3.85%) Svelte
5 2 (3.85%) Vue
6 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.92%) jQuery
6 1 (1.92%) RESTful
6 1 (1.92%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Derivative
2 5 (9.62%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (5.77%) Blockchain
4 3 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.85%) CBDC
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.85%) FPGA
5 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.85%) Solar Panel
6 1 (1.92%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.92%) Digital Currency
6 1 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Android
2 1 (1.92%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) Software Engineering
2 22 (42.31%) Computer Science
3 15 (28.85%) CI/CD
3 15 (28.85%) DevOps
4 14 (26.92%) Mathematics
4 14 (26.92%) Test Automation
5 12 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (21.15%) Product Requirements
7 9 (17.31%) Agile
7 9 (17.31%) Backtesting
7 9 (17.31%) Mathematical Modelling
8 8 (15.38%) Applied Mathematics
8 8 (15.38%) Financial Modelling
8 8 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (13.46%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (13.46%) Probabilistic Modelling
10 6 (11.54%) LLM
10 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.54%) Open Source
10 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (73.08%) Python
2 30 (57.69%) Java
3 21 (40.38%) C++
4 17 (32.69%) SQL
5 15 (28.85%) Go
6 10 (19.23%) C#
7 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
8 8 (15.38%) C
9 6 (11.54%) Clojure
9 6 (11.54%) Haskell
10 4 (7.69%) Perl
10 4 (7.69%) PHP
10 4 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (44.23%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.85%) PhD
6 1 (1.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Terraform
2 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.77%) Consul
3 3 (5.77%) Packer
4 1 (1.92%) Ansible
4 1 (1.92%) Grafana
4 1 (1.92%) Kibana
4 1 (1.92%) logstash
4 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Google
2 4 (7.69%) Splunk
3 3 (5.77%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.92%) SAP