Rust
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Rust skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Rust over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 603 717 531
Rank change year-on-year +114 -186 +225
Permanent jobs citing Rust 304 237 1,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 0.56% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 261 177 134
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £126,250
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,326 42,611 88,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 43.26% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24,946 27,225 43,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Rust.

Salary trend for Rust in the UK

Rust
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Rust in the UK

Rust
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +150 280 £80,000 - 143
London +157 152 £100,000 -4.76% 94
UK excluding London +53 144 £57,500 -17.86% 79
Work from Home +97 124 £65,000 -18.75% 58
South West +45 68 £67,500 +3.85% 11
North of England +45 23 £50,000 +12.75% 9
North West +16 22 £50,000 -35.48% 7
Scotland -42 21 £100,000 - 1
East of England +20 18 £55,000 +29.41% 13
East Midlands +3 11 £65,000 +73.33% 2
Midlands -21 11 £65,000 -35.00% 5
South East -36 3 £47,500 -36.67% 41
Yorkshire +72 1 £65,000 +46.58% 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 7 (2.30%) nginx
2 6 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.97%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.32%) OpenZeppelin
4 3 (0.99%) Apache
4 3 (0.99%) Confluence
5 2 (0.66%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.66%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 73 (24.01%) AWS
2 22 (7.24%) Azure
3 15 (4.93%) GCP
4 9 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (2.63%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.30%) GitHub
6 7 (2.30%) SaaS
7 6 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.97%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.32%) Discord
9 4 (1.32%) Serverless
10 3 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.33%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) IPFS
2 1 (0.33%) DNS
2 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) MQTT
2 1 (0.33%) RS-232
2 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.28%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.99%) MySQL
5 3 (0.99%) Parquet
5 3 (0.99%) Redis
6 2 (0.66%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (4.28%) Git
2 10 (3.29%) GitLab
3 6 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.97%) JIRA
3 6 (1.97%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.97%) webpack
4 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.32%) Hardhat
5 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.33%) Maven
6 1 (0.33%) Phabricator
General
1 52 (17.11%) Finance
2 44 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (3.95%) Automotive
5 11 (3.62%) Banking
6 9 (2.96%) Games
7 8 (2.63%) Front Office
8 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.32%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Electronics
11 2 (0.66%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.33%) Esports
12 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 180 (59.21%) Software Engineer
2 98 (32.24%) Senior
3 74 (24.34%) Senior Software Engineer
4 59 (19.41%) Developer
5 58 (19.08%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (19.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 37 (12.17%) Lead
7 26 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (8.55%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.55%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.89%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 24 (7.89%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 23 (7.57%) Rust Engineer
10 17 (5.59%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (5.26%) Rust Software Engineer
12 15 (4.93%) Rust Developer
13 14 (4.61%) Python Engineer
13 14 (4.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.61%) Senior Developer
14 13 (4.28%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.49%) React
2 20 (6.58%) GraphQL
3 19 (6.25%) Node.js
4 13 (4.28%) Laravel
5 10 (3.29%) Django
6 9 (2.96%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.63%) Smart Contracts
8 7 (2.30%) .NET
8 7 (2.30%) Spring
9 6 (1.97%) CSS
9 6 (1.97%) Flask
9 6 (1.97%) REST
9 6 (1.97%) Symfony
10 5 (1.64%) HTML
10 5 (1.64%) iOS SDK
10 5 (1.64%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (1.64%) WebSockets
11 4 (1.32%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.32%) CakePHP
11 4 (1.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.09%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (11.18%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.89%) Legacy Code
4 18 (5.92%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.26%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.93%) IoT
7 14 (4.61%) Hedge funds
8 13 (4.28%) Algorithms
9 11 (3.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (3.29%) Embedded Systems
11 9 (2.96%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.96%) Device Driver
11 9 (2.96%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.64%) Blog
13 5 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.64%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.32%) PKI
14 4 (1.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 142 (46.71%) Linux
2 54 (17.76%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (2.96%) Unix
4 8 (2.63%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.30%) Android
6 6 (1.97%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.32%) Windows
8 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (72.04%) Software Engineering
2 65 (21.38%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (17.11%) Computer Science
4 47 (15.46%) DevOps
5 43 (14.14%) Open Source
6 36 (11.84%) Full Stack Development
7 34 (11.18%) CI/CD
8 31 (10.20%) Agile
9 28 (9.21%) Low Latency
10 27 (8.88%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (7.57%) Test Automation
12 21 (6.91%) Data Management
13 19 (6.25%) Electronic Trading
13 19 (6.25%) Machine Learning
14 18 (5.92%) User Experience
15 17 (5.59%) Artificial Intelligence
15 17 (5.59%) TDD
16 16 (5.26%) Containerisation
16 16 (5.26%) Cryptography
17 15 (4.93%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 145 (47.70%) Python
2 132 (43.42%) C
3 90 (29.61%) Java
4 89 (29.28%) Go
5 84 (27.63%) C++
6 57 (18.75%) Embedded C
7 56 (18.42%) Bash
8 54 (17.76%) TypeScript
9 37 (12.17%) C#
10 28 (9.21%) JavaScript
11 25 (8.22%) SQL
12 24 (7.89%) PHP
13 21 (6.91%) Haskell
14 14 (4.61%) Ruby
15 10 (3.29%) Clojure
15 10 (3.29%) F#
16 7 (2.30%) Kotlin
16 7 (2.30%) Solidity
17 6 (1.97%) PowerShell
17 6 (1.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (19.41%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.46%) Degree
3 17 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.61%) PhD
6 6 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.61%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.97%) MISRA
3 3 (0.99%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.99%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 29 (9.54%) Docker
2 8 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.97%) Ceph
4 3 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.99%) Firmware
4 3 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.59%) Terraform
3 15 (4.93%) Ansible
4 6 (1.97%) Knative
5 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.66%) Grafana
8 1 (0.33%) Podman
8 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (2.96%) Google
2 4 (1.32%) Foundry
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.99%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.99%) Coverity
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle
4 2 (0.66%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.66%) QNX