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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 616 742
Rank change year-on-year +94 +126 -110
Contract jobs citing Rust 54 68 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.34% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 60 87
10th Percentile £481 £398 £417
25th Percentile £525 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +14.58% +14.29%
75th Percentile £825 £750 £700
90th Percentile £875 - £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £450 £594
% change year-on-year +36.11% -24.21% -1.04%
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 12,689 19,768 31,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.82% 34.70% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,018 14,250 23,099
10th Percentile £350 £390 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 448 510
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.21 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +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 16 May 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 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 16 May 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 +101 48 £663 -11.67% 104
London +93 41 £698 -7.00% 76
Work from Home +98 17 £550 -26.67% 47
UK excluding London +55 8 £613 +36.11% 31
North of England +24 2 £550 +63.20% 9
East of England +11 2 - - 4
Scotland - 2 - - 2
North West +16 1 £550 +63.20% 8
South East - 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £675 -
Midlands - 1 £675 - 1
Yorkshire - 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 5 (9.26%) nginx
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) Azure
2 19 (35.19%) AWS
3 16 (29.63%) GitHub
4 13 (24.07%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (11.11%) GCP
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.85%) NuGet
7 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) IPv4
2 2 (3.70%) RS-485
3 1 (1.85%) DHCP
3 1 (1.85%) DNS
3 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.07%) NoSQL
2 8 (14.81%) MySQL
3 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.56%) Big Data
5 2 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.85%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (27.78%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) JIRA
3 2 (3.70%) Darcs
3 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.85%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.85%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (51.85%) Finance
2 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.67%) Front Office
4 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Banking
5 4 (7.41%) Financial Institution
5 4 (7.41%) Games
5 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) Electronics
6 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Marketing
7 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (50.00%) Developer
2 20 (37.04%) Senior
3 17 (31.48%) Software Engineer
4 11 (20.37%) Rust Engineer
5 10 (18.52%) Quantitative Developer
5 10 (18.52%) Rust Software Engineer
5 10 (18.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Senior Developer
7 6 (11.11%) Senior Quantitative Developer
8 5 (9.26%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (9.26%) Lead
8 5 (9.26%) Lead Software Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Python Developer
8 5 (9.26%) Python Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Rust Developer
10 3 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.22%) NumPy
1 12 (22.22%) Pandas
1 12 (22.22%) SciPy
2 8 (14.81%) REST
3 5 (9.26%) Kafka
4 4 (7.41%) React
5 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (3.70%) .NET
6 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.70%) CSS
6 2 (3.70%) Django
6 2 (3.70%) HTML
6 2 (3.70%) jQuery
6 2 (3.70%) Node.js
6 2 (3.70%) Svelte
6 2 (3.70%) Vue
7 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.85%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.85%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Derivative
2 6 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.26%) Data Structures
4 4 (7.41%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (5.56%) Blockchain
5 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.70%) CBDC
6 2 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (3.70%) FPGA
6 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.70%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.85%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.85%) Digital Currency
7 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.85%) PKI
7 1 (1.85%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Android
2 1 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (64.81%) Software Engineering
2 24 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 16 (29.63%) DevOps
4 15 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 14 (25.93%) Mathematics
5 14 (25.93%) Test Automation
6 12 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (20.37%) Product Requirements
8 9 (16.67%) Agile
8 9 (16.67%) Backtesting
8 9 (16.67%) Mathematical Modelling
9 8 (14.81%) Applied Mathematics
9 8 (14.81%) Financial Modelling
9 8 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (12.96%) Architectural Patterns
10 7 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (12.96%) Machine Learning
10 7 (12.96%) Probabilistic Modelling
11 6 (11.11%) LLM
11 6 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (70.37%) Python
2 31 (57.41%) Java
3 21 (38.89%) C++
4 18 (33.33%) SQL
5 16 (29.63%) Go
6 10 (18.52%) C#
6 10 (18.52%) JavaScript
7 8 (14.81%) C
8 6 (11.11%) Clojure
8 6 (11.11%) Haskell
9 4 (7.41%) Perl
9 4 (7.41%) PHP
9 4 (7.41%) Ruby
10 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (44.44%) Degree
2 7 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.70%) PhD
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Terraform
2 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.56%) Consul
3 3 (5.56%) Packer
4 1 (1.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) Grafana
4 1 (1.85%) Kibana
4 1 (1.85%) logstash
4 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Google
2 4 (7.41%) Splunk
3 3 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) SAP