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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 536 622
Rank change year-on-year +69 +86 +140
Contract jobs citing Rust 62 51 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 0.40% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 64
10th Percentile £463 £481 £400
25th Percentile £530 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £650 £645
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +0.82% +7.45%
75th Percentile £838 £825 £750
90th Percentile £905 £875 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £613 £438
% change year-on-year -25.51% +40.00% -25.53%
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 9,910 12,749 20,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.04% 29.56% 34.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,731 9,065 14,723
10th Percentile £358 £350 £394
25th Percentile £415 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £774 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.71% -2.35% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 489 462
10th Percentile £25.01 £32.25 £26.14
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.28
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +2.20% +20.55%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.34 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +2.40% +2.97% +22.01%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +74 48 £625 -5.66% 523
London +45 35 £750 +7.53% 236
Work from Home +50 23 £575 +4.55% 353
UK excluding London +62 15 £456 -25.51% 350
South East +47 6 £413 - 124
Wales - 5 - - 2
North of England +20 2 £538 -2.27% 77
Midlands +19 1 - - 73
North West +13 1 £500 -9.09% 38
West Midlands - 1 - - 37
North East - 1 £575 - 11
South West - 1 £410 - 33

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 7 (11.29%) Documentum
1 7 (11.29%) FileNet
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) Ethereum
2 1 (1.61%) Hyperledger
2 1 (1.61%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) AWS
2 9 (14.52%) Azure
2 9 (14.52%) Serverless
3 7 (11.29%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (11.29%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (9.68%) GitHub
4 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.45%) GCP
6 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.23%) SaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
1 2 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.84%) MySQL
3 2 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Big Data
4 1 (1.61%) GIS
4 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
1 9 (14.52%) GitLab
2 2 (3.23%) MLflow
3 1 (1.61%) Hardhat
3 1 (1.61%) PHPUnit
General
1 19 (30.65%) Finance
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.13%) Banking
4 9 (14.52%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.06%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (40.32%) Developer
2 15 (24.19%) Python Developer
3 10 (16.13%) Rust Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) JavaScript Developer
4 9 (14.52%) Senior
4 9 (14.52%) Software Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) AWS Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Gen AI Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Quantitative Developer
9 4 (6.45%) Documentum Developer
9 4 (6.45%) Python Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Rust Software Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Principal Software Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Java Developer
11 2 (3.23%) Penetration Tester
11 2 (3.23%) Principal Developer
11 2 (3.23%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) NumPy
1 12 (19.35%) Pandas
2 11 (17.74%) React
2 11 (17.74%) SciPy
3 9 (14.52%) AngularJS
3 9 (14.52%) FastAPI
3 9 (14.52%) REST
3 9 (14.52%) Vue
4 8 (12.90%) Flask
4 8 (12.90%) Polars
5 4 (6.45%) LangChain
6 3 (4.84%) Kafka
6 3 (4.84%) Node.js
6 3 (4.84%) Spring
6 3 (4.84%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.23%) Django
7 2 (3.23%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.23%) RESTful
7 2 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (3.23%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.90%) Algorithms
2 8 (12.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (12.90%) Hedge funds
3 7 (11.29%) Public Cloud
4 5 (8.06%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.84%) Blog
5 3 (4.84%) Derivative
6 2 (3.23%) Blockchain
6 2 (3.23%) Cyberattack
6 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.23%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.61%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.61%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.03%) Linux
2 7 (11.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.23%) Android
3 2 (3.23%) Windows
4 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.61%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) CI/CD
2 28 (45.16%) Software Engineering
3 17 (27.42%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (24.19%) Agile
4 15 (24.19%) Machine Learning
5 11 (17.74%) Mathematics
6 10 (16.13%) Data Engineering
7 9 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (12.90%) Clean Code
8 8 (12.90%) LLM
8 8 (12.90%) SDLC
8 8 (12.90%) Structured Programming
8 8 (12.90%) Systematic Trading
8 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
9 7 (11.29%) Content Management
9 7 (11.29%) Generative AI
9 7 (11.29%) MLOps
10 6 (9.68%) Analytics
10 6 (9.68%) Containerisation
10 6 (9.68%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (64.52%) Python
2 24 (38.71%) Java
3 18 (29.03%) C++
4 13 (20.97%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.52%) C#
6 7 (11.29%) Clojure
6 7 (11.29%) Elixir
6 7 (11.29%) Scala
7 5 (8.06%) C
7 5 (8.06%) Go
8 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.23%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.23%) Ruby
9 2 (3.23%) SQL
10 1 (1.61%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.61%) Bash
10 1 (1.61%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.61%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.61%) Haskell
10 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) Degree
2 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.29%) Master's Degree
5 6 (9.68%) PhD
6 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.23%) CCNA
7 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.61%) CEH
8 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 17 (27.42%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (32.26%) Kubernetes
2 14 (22.58%) Terraform
3 8 (12.90%) Ansible
4 2 (3.23%) Grafana
5 1 (1.61%) Argo
5 1 (1.61%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Oracle
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.23%) Alibaba
3 2 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (1.61%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.61%) SendGrid