Rust Contracts

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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 628 733
Rank change year-on-year +98 +105 -59
Contract jobs citing Rust 60 60 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 52 90
10th Percentile £453 £378 £459
25th Percentile £513 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £713 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £700
90th Percentile £875 - £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £414 £600
% change year-on-year +29.99% -31.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.56
25th Percentile £61.25 - £55.16
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £60.63
75th Percentile £63.75 - £66.41
90th Percentile - - £68.19
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 13,072 18,994 31,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.07% 34.06% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,242 13,669 23,250
10th Percentile £350 £385 £388
25th Percentile £425 £458 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £663
90th Percentile £763 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 438 495
10th Percentile £31.95 £30.53 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.11 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.19% +15.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.63 £78.00 £71.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +25.00%

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 7 June 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 13 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 7 June 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 +86 55 £638 -15.00% 137
London +82 43 £650 -13.33% 90
Work from Home +107 18 £550 -26.67% 47
UK excluding London +60 13 £538 +29.99% 45
East of England +12 4 £500 -9.09% 9
South West +15 3 £538 +16.22% 12
North of England +17 2 £550 +63.20% 7
Scotland - 2 - - 1
North West +16 1 £550 +63.20% 5
South East - 1 - - 15
East Midlands - 1 £675 - 1
Midlands - 1 £675 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 5 (8.33%) nginx
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.67%) Azure
2 20 (33.33%) AWS
3 16 (26.67%) GitHub
4 14 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.00%) GCP
6 3 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.00%) SaaS
7 2 (3.33%) Serverless
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.67%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) IPv4
1 3 (5.00%) RS-485
2 1 (1.67%) DHCP
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) NoSQL
2 8 (13.33%) MySQL
3 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.00%) Big Data
5 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.67%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (26.67%) Git
2 6 (10.00%) JIRA
3 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.33%) Darcs
4 2 (3.33%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.67%) Gradle
5 1 (1.67%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.67%) JUnit
5 1 (1.67%) Maven
5 1 (1.67%) Travis CI
General
1 29 (48.33%) Finance
2 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Front Office
4 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.67%) Games
7 3 (5.00%) Electronics
7 3 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.33%) Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Retail
8 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (43.33%) Developer
2 23 (38.33%) Software Engineer
3 20 (33.33%) Senior
4 13 (21.67%) Rust Engineer
5 11 (18.33%) Rust Software Engineer
5 11 (18.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (16.67%) Quantitative Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Quantitative Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Lead
8 5 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Python Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Software Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.00%) NumPy
1 12 (20.00%) Pandas
1 12 (20.00%) SciPy
2 9 (15.00%) REST
3 6 (10.00%) Kafka
4 4 (6.67%) React
5 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (3.33%) .NET
6 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.33%) CSS
6 2 (3.33%) Django
6 2 (3.33%) HTML
6 2 (3.33%) jQuery
6 2 (3.33%) Node.js
6 2 (3.33%) Spring
6 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.33%) Svelte
6 2 (3.33%) Vue
7 1 (1.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Derivative
2 7 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.00%) FPGA
5 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.33%) Blockchain
6 2 (3.33%) CBDC
6 2 (3.33%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.33%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.67%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.67%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Android
2 1 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (68.33%) Software Engineering
2 25 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 17 (28.33%) CI/CD
3 17 (28.33%) DevOps
4 15 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 14 (23.33%) Test Automation
6 12 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (18.33%) Agile
7 11 (18.33%) Product Requirements
8 9 (15.00%) Backtesting
8 9 (15.00%) Mathematical Modelling
9 8 (13.33%) Applied Mathematics
9 8 (13.33%) Financial Modelling
9 8 (13.33%) Machine Learning
9 8 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
10 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (11.67%) Probabilistic Modelling
Programming Languages
1 40 (66.67%) Python
2 34 (56.67%) Java
3 22 (36.67%) C++
4 18 (30.00%) SQL
5 16 (26.67%) Go
6 12 (20.00%) C#
7 11 (18.33%) C
8 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
9 6 (10.00%) Clojure
9 6 (10.00%) Haskell
10 4 (6.67%) Perl
10 4 (6.67%) PHP
10 4 (6.67%) Ruby
11 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (41.67%) Degree
2 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) PhD
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.67%) ISO 13485
2 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 10 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Consul
2 3 (5.00%) Packer
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Kibana
3 1 (1.67%) logstash
3 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Google
2 4 (6.67%) Splunk
3 3 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat