Hybrid/Remote Rust Contract Job Trends

Rust
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Rust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 299 359
Rank change year-on-year -7 +60 +127
Contract jobs citing Rust 12 17 32
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% 0.40% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 21
10th Percentile £499 £400 £430
25th Percentile £522 £556 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £753 £675
90th Percentile £730 £961 -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £66.50 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.00 - £80.00

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 3,567 4,295 5,715
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.03% 35.40% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,369 2,852 4,196
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £787 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 60 147
10th Percentile £35.48 £21.25 £34.70
25th Percentile £52.94 £26.50 £51.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -4.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £67.06 £66.63 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rust and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Rust job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Rust
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rust.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rust

Rust
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rust over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Rust daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Rust
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rust.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rust

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (8.33%) Google Gemini
1 1 (8.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) GitLab
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (41.67%) TeamCity
2 4 (33.33%) Gradle
3 2 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) GoCD
4 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Health Technology
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Rust Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Rust Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Blockchain Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Quantitative Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Next.js
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) htmx
3 1 (8.33%) JWT
3 1 (8.33%) Memcached
3 1 (8.33%) NestJS
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (8.33%) OpenID
3 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (8.33%) Pandas
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (8.33%) web3js
3 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Blockchain
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Trunk-Based Development
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (8.33%) Application Security
7 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
7 1 (8.33%) Async-Await
7 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
7 1 (8.33%) Database Migration
7 1 (8.33%) DeFi
7 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (8.33%) Key Management
7 1 (8.33%) LLM
7 1 (8.33%) Observability
7 1 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (41.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) R
4 1 (8.33%) Solidity
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CCIP
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) rkt
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace