Rust Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Rust
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 330 434
Rank change year-on-year +49 +104 +128
Contract jobs citing Rust 23 15 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.098% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 0.29% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 38
10th Percentile £502 £497 £425
25th Percentile £535 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £656 -
90th Percentile £728 £700 -
UK median daily rate £618 £650 £639
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.72% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.51 - -
Median hourly rate £56.75 - -
75th Percentile £64.52 - -
90th Percentile £66.91 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.81 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -23.51% - -

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Rust falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Rust
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Rust trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Rust
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Rust.

Rust daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Rust
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Rust over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Rust daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Rust
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Rust over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Rust hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (8.70%) Documentum
1 2 (8.70%) FileNet
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Ethereum
2 1 (4.35%) Hyperledger
2 1 (4.35%) MetaMask
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) GIS
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) MLflow
3 1 (4.35%) Hardhat
3 1 (4.35%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Rust Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Penetration Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Security Researcher
4 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Rust Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Security Penetration Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Penetration Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Blockchain Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Documentum Developer
6 1 (4.35%) GIS Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Research Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) web3js
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) Doctrine
2 1 (4.35%) Loki
2 1 (4.35%) Next.js
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) React
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (4.35%) Symfony
2 1 (4.35%) Truffle
2 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Blockchain
3 2 (8.70%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Android
2 2 (8.70%) FreeRTOS
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
2 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
4 5 (21.74%) Scrum
4 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
4 5 (21.74%) UML
5 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 4 (17.39%) Offensive Security
5 4 (17.39%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Cryptography
7 2 (8.70%) Content Management
7 2 (8.70%) Ethical Hacking
7 2 (8.70%) Fintech
7 2 (8.70%) LLM
7 2 (8.70%) Open Source
7 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) C
3 5 (21.74%) C++
4 4 (17.39%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) Assembly Language
5 2 (8.70%) Embedded C
5 2 (8.70%) Embedded C++
5 2 (8.70%) Go
6 1 (4.35%) Clojure
6 1 (4.35%) Elixir
6 1 (4.35%) Haskell
6 1 (4.35%) PHP
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) PhD
4 2 (8.70%) CEH
4 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.70%) OSCP
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (8.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.35%) SendGrid