Rust Contracts

Rust
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 550 638
Rank change year-on-year +94 +88 +115
Contract jobs citing Rust 63 50 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 0.39% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 67
10th Percentile £455 £481 £400
25th Percentile £528 £525 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £639
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +1.72% +6.50%
75th Percentile £831 £825 £750
90th Percentile £875 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £613 £438
% change year-on-year -25.51% +40.00% -16.67%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £47.81 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -23.51% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

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 30 April 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Rust over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 April 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
England +66 50 £625 -3.85% 346
London +29 35 £700 +7.69% 146
Work from Home +59 24 £620 +12.73% 240
UK excluding London +63 15 £456 -25.51% 209
South East +48 6 £413 - 45
Wales - 5 - - 1
North of England +27 2 £558 +1.36% 53
Midlands +24 1 - - 54
Yorkshire +15 1 £615 - 22
North West +10 1 £500 -9.09% 24
South West - 1 £410 - 15
West Midlands - 1 - - 26

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 5 (7.94%) Documentum
1 5 (7.94%) FileNet
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.59%) Hyperledger
2 1 (1.59%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.27%) AWS
2 10 (15.87%) Azure
3 7 (11.11%) Serverless
4 6 (9.52%) GitHub
4 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (7.94%) GCP
6 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.17%) SaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.59%) Kong
8 1 (1.59%) OCI
8 1 (1.59%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Firewall
1 2 (3.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.76%) MySQL
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Big Data
4 1 (1.59%) GIS
4 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Git
2 7 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (3.17%) MLflow
4 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.59%) Hardhat
4 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.59%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Newman
4 1 (1.59%) PHPUnit
4 1 (1.59%) Postman
4 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.59%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Banking
4 7 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Developer
2 13 (20.63%) Python Developer
3 12 (19.05%) Senior
4 10 (15.87%) Rust Engineer
4 10 (15.87%) Software Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) JavaScript Developer
6 7 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) AWS Developer
6 7 (11.11%) Gen AI Engineer
6 7 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Python Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Penetration Tester
8 4 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Rust Software Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Principal Software Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Security Researcher
10 2 (3.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Research Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) NumPy
1 10 (15.87%) Pandas
1 10 (15.87%) React
1 10 (15.87%) REST
1 10 (15.87%) SciPy
2 9 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 8 (12.70%) AngularJS
3 8 (12.70%) Vue
4 7 (11.11%) Flask
4 7 (11.11%) Polars
5 4 (6.35%) Kafka
5 4 (6.35%) LangChain
6 3 (4.76%) Node.js
6 3 (4.76%) Spring
6 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.17%) Django
7 2 (3.17%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.17%) RESTful
7 2 (3.17%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (3.17%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 8 (12.70%) Algorithms
4 7 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (11.11%) Hedge funds
5 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.76%) Blog
7 2 (3.17%) Blockchain
7 2 (3.17%) Cyberattack
7 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.17%) Derivative
7 2 (3.17%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.17%) Solar Panel
8 1 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.59%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.98%) Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.76%) Android
4 2 (3.17%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (3.17%) Windows
5 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.03%) CI/CD
1 29 (46.03%) Software Engineering
2 18 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 16 (25.40%) Machine Learning
4 13 (20.63%) Agile
5 10 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (15.87%) Mathematics
6 9 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 9 (14.29%) LLM
6 9 (14.29%) SDLC
6 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.70%) DevOps
7 8 (12.70%) Generative AI
7 8 (12.70%) Structured Programming
8 7 (11.11%) Analytics
8 7 (11.11%) Clean Code
8 7 (11.11%) MLOps
8 7 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (11.11%) Systematic Trading
9 6 (9.52%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (63.49%) Python
2 23 (36.51%) Java
3 18 (28.57%) C++
4 12 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.29%) C#
6 8 (12.70%) Clojure
7 7 (11.11%) C
7 7 (11.11%) Elixir
7 7 (11.11%) Scala
8 6 (9.52%) Go
9 4 (6.35%) TypeScript
10 3 (4.76%) SQL
11 2 (3.17%) Assembly Language
11 2 (3.17%) Embedded C
11 2 (3.17%) Embedded C++
11 2 (3.17%) Haskell
11 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
11 2 (3.17%) PHP
11 2 (3.17%) Ruby
12 1 (1.59%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) Degree
2 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.11%) Master's Degree
5 6 (9.52%) PhD
6 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.17%) CCNA
7 2 (3.17%) CEH
7 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.17%) OSCP
8 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 17 (26.98%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (3.17%) Firmware
3 1 (1.59%) VirtualBox
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (34.92%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.63%) Terraform
3 7 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Argo
5 1 (1.59%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.17%) Alibaba
3 2 (3.17%) Cisco
4 1 (1.59%) Google
4 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.59%) SendGrid
4 1 (1.59%) Splunk
4 1 (1.59%) VMware