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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 626 718 522
Rank change year-on-year +92 -196 +208
Permanent jobs citing Rust 297 236 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.24% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 0.56% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 255 177 139
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 £104,500 £105,000 £121,250
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.57% +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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
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 £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 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 28 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 +123 274 £77,500 -3.13% 121
London +175 144 £102,500 -2.38% 71
UK excluding London +21 144 £57,000 -18.57% 49
Work from Home +98 120 £60,000 -25.00% 53
South West +35 68 £62,500 -3.85% 12
North of England +54 23 £50,000 +12.75% 8
North West +21 22 £50,000 -35.48% 6
Scotland -41 21 £100,000 - 1
East of England +8 18 £55,000 +29.41% 12
East Midlands -6 11 £65,000 +73.33% 3
Midlands -17 11 £65,000 -35.00% 7
South East -46 3 £47,500 -36.67% 10
Yorkshire +70 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 (2.36%) nginx
2 6 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.02%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.35%) OpenZeppelin
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.67%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 67 (22.56%) AWS
2 18 (6.06%) Azure
3 12 (4.04%) GCP
4 9 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (2.69%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.36%) SaaS
7 6 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.02%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.02%) GitHub
8 5 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.35%) Discord
9 4 (1.35%) Serverless
10 2 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.34%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) IPFS
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
2 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) MQTT
2 1 (0.34%) RS-232
2 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.38%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.01%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (1.01%) MySQL
5 3 (1.01%) Parquet
5 3 (1.01%) Redis
6 2 (0.67%) Big Data
7 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (4.38%) Git
2 9 (3.03%) GitLab
3 6 (2.02%) webpack
4 5 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.68%) JIRA
4 5 (1.68%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.35%) Hardhat
6 3 (1.01%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.34%) Maven
8 1 (0.34%) Phabricator
General
1 49 (16.50%) Finance
2 44 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (4.04%) Automotive
5 9 (3.03%) Games
6 8 (2.69%) Banking
6 8 (2.69%) Front Office
7 5 (1.68%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.35%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.01%) Electronics
10 2 (0.67%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.34%) Esports
Job Titles
1 175 (58.92%) Software Engineer
2 93 (31.31%) Senior
3 72 (24.24%) Senior Software Engineer
4 60 (20.20%) Developer
5 58 (19.53%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (19.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 35 (11.78%) Lead
7 26 (8.75%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.75%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 23 (7.74%) Rust Engineer
9 22 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (7.41%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 22 (7.41%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 16 (5.39%) Lead Software Engineer
10 16 (5.39%) Rust Software Engineer
11 15 (5.05%) Rust Developer
12 14 (4.71%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.38%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.38%) Technical Leader
14 11 (3.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.80%) React
2 21 (7.07%) Node.js
3 19 (6.40%) GraphQL
4 13 (4.38%) Laravel
5 10 (3.37%) Django
5 10 (3.37%) Smart Contracts
6 9 (3.03%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.36%) Spring
8 6 (2.02%) .NET
8 6 (2.02%) CSS
8 6 (2.02%) Flask
8 6 (2.02%) REST
8 6 (2.02%) Symfony
8 6 (2.02%) web3js
9 5 (1.68%) HTML
9 5 (1.68%) iOS SDK
9 5 (1.68%) Ruby on Rails
9 5 (1.68%) WebSockets
10 4 (1.35%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.35%) CakePHP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.17%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (10.44%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.41%) Legacy Code
4 18 (6.06%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.39%) Client/Server
6 14 (4.71%) Hedge funds
6 14 (4.71%) IoT
7 13 (4.38%) Algorithms
8 12 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (3.37%) Embedded Systems
11 9 (3.03%) Data Structures
11 9 (3.03%) Device Driver
11 9 (3.03%) Virtual Team
12 8 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (2.02%) Web3
14 5 (1.68%) Blog
14 5 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (1.68%) Mobile App
15 4 (1.35%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 139 (46.80%) Linux
2 54 (18.18%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (3.03%) Unix
4 7 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.02%) Alpine Linux
5 6 (2.02%) Android
6 4 (1.35%) Windows
7 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (71.72%) Software Engineering
2 62 (20.88%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (17.51%) Computer Science
4 46 (15.49%) DevOps
5 43 (14.48%) Open Source
6 34 (11.45%) Full Stack Development
7 31 (10.44%) CI/CD
8 30 (10.10%) Agile
9 28 (9.43%) Low Latency
10 26 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (7.74%) Test Automation
12 21 (7.07%) Data Management
13 19 (6.40%) Electronic Trading
13 19 (6.40%) Machine Learning
14 17 (5.72%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (5.72%) TDD
15 16 (5.39%) User Experience
16 15 (5.05%) Containerisation
16 15 (5.05%) Cryptography
16 15 (5.05%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 143 (48.15%) Python
2 130 (43.77%) C
3 86 (28.96%) Java
4 84 (28.28%) Go
5 82 (27.61%) C++
6 57 (19.19%) Embedded C
7 56 (18.86%) Bash
8 53 (17.85%) TypeScript
9 33 (11.11%) C#
10 25 (8.42%) SQL
11 24 (8.08%) JavaScript
12 23 (7.74%) PHP
13 19 (6.40%) Haskell
14 10 (3.37%) Ruby
15 9 (3.03%) Solidity
16 8 (2.69%) Clojure
16 8 (2.69%) F#
17 6 (2.02%) PowerShell
17 6 (2.02%) Scala
17 6 (2.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.82%) Degree
3 17 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.39%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.71%) PhD
6 6 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.71%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.02%) MISRA
3 3 (1.01%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.01%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.34%) GDPR
4 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 28 (9.43%) Docker
2 6 (2.02%) Ceph
2 6 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.01%) Firmware
3 3 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (22.90%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.39%) Terraform
3 14 (4.71%) Ansible
4 6 (2.02%) Knative
5 2 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.34%) Podman
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (3.03%) Google
2 4 (1.35%) Foundry
2 4 (1.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.01%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.01%) Coverity
3 3 (1.01%) Oracle
4 2 (0.67%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.67%) QNX