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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 638 754
Rank change year-on-year +88 +116 -119
Contract jobs citing Rust 50 75 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.39% 0.36% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 67 79
10th Percentile £481 £400 £396
25th Percentile £525 £519 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £639 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% +6.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £825 £750 £669
90th Percentile £875 - £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £63.75 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 12,854 20,901 32,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.49% 35.02% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,130 15,092 23,463
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £760 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 471 514
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +26.21% +16.52%

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 29 April 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 11 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 29 April 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 +85 47 £650 - 118
London +93 41 £650 -13.33% 77
Work from Home +90 15 £550 -26.67% 54
UK excluding London +63 6 £613 +40.00% 45
North of England +28 3 £550 +63.20% 8
North West +22 2 £550 +63.20% 6
South East - 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £675 - 2
Midlands - 1 £675 - 3

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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 18 (36.00%) AWS
3 16 (32.00%) GitHub
4 13 (26.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) GCP
6 3 (6.00%) SaaS
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.00%) NuGet
8 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) IPv4
2 1 (2.00%) DHCP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.00%) MySQL
3 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.00%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Darcs
3 2 (4.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.00%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.00%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (18.00%) Front Office
2 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Financial Institution
4 4 (8.00%) Games
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (54.00%) Developer
2 17 (34.00%) Senior
3 14 (28.00%) Software Engineer
4 11 (22.00%) Rust Engineer
5 10 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
5 10 (20.00%) Rust Software Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Senior Developer
6 7 (14.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) Rust Developer
7 6 (12.00%) Senior Quantitative Developer
8 5 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (10.00%) Lead
8 5 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Python Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Python Developer
10 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) NumPy
1 12 (24.00%) Pandas
1 12 (24.00%) SciPy
2 8 (16.00%) REST
3 5 (10.00%) Kafka
4 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.00%) React
4 3 (6.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (4.00%) .NET
5 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.00%) CSS
5 2 (4.00%) Django
5 2 (4.00%) HTML
5 2 (4.00%) Node.js
5 2 (4.00%) Svelte
5 2 (4.00%) Vue
6 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Derivative
2 3 (6.00%) Blockchain
2 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.00%) CBDC
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.00%) Solar Panel
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Device Driver
4 1 (2.00%) Digital Currency
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Android
2 1 (2.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (36.00%) Computer Science
3 15 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.00%) DevOps
3 15 (30.00%) Mathematics
4 14 (28.00%) Test Automation
5 12 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (22.00%) Product Requirements
7 9 (18.00%) Backtesting
8 8 (16.00%) Applied Mathematics
8 8 (16.00%) Financial Modelling
8 8 (16.00%) Mathematical Modelling
8 8 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (14.00%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (14.00%) Probabilistic Modelling
10 6 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (12.00%) LLM
10 6 (12.00%) Machine Learning
10 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 35 (70.00%) Python
2 29 (58.00%) Java
3 21 (42.00%) C++
4 15 (30.00%) SQL
5 14 (28.00%) Go
6 8 (16.00%) C
6 8 (16.00%) C#
6 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (12.00%) Clojure
7 6 (12.00%) Haskell
8 4 (8.00%) PHP
8 4 (8.00%) Ruby
9 3 (6.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Terraform
2 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) Consul
3 3 (6.00%) Packer
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.00%) Kibana
4 1 (2.00%) logstash
4 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Google
1 4 (8.00%) Splunk
2 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle