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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 744 568
Rank change year-on-year +122 -176 +181
Permanent jobs citing Rust 299 253 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.25% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 0.58% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 260 190 125
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,375 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £137,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.32% +20.45% -15.38%

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 33,037 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,871 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 7 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 7 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 +132 273 £75,000 -9.09% 106
UK excluding London +37 147 £58,750 -11.32% 35
London +140 142 £96,000 -8.57% 75
Work from Home +105 122 £57,500 -28.13% 48
South West +28 69 £71,250 +9.62% 8
North of England +52 24 £50,000 +12.75% 9
Scotland -45 23 £100,000 - 2
North West +30 22 £50,000 -39.39% 7
East of England +27 17 £55,000 +29.41% 10
East Midlands -6 11 £65,000 +73.33% 1
Midlands -10 11 £65,000 -35.00% 1
South East -21 3 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +73 2 £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 6 (2.01%) Ethereum
1 6 (2.01%) nginx
2 4 (1.34%) OpenZeppelin
3 3 (1.00%) Apache
3 3 (1.00%) Confluence
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.67%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.67%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 75 (25.08%) AWS
2 22 (7.36%) Azure
3 13 (4.35%) GCP
4 9 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (3.01%) GitHub
5 8 (2.68%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.34%) SaaS
7 6 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.01%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.34%) Discord
9 4 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.34%) Serverless
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.33%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.33%) Fastly
10 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.34%) IPFS
2 2 (0.67%) MQTT
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.33%) Internet
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) RS-232
3 1 (0.33%) SNMP
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.34%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.34%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.00%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (1.00%) Big Data
5 3 (1.00%) MySQL
5 3 (1.00%) Parquet
5 3 (1.00%) Redis
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (4.01%) Git
2 11 (3.68%) GitLab
3 7 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.34%) JIRA
3 7 (2.34%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.01%) webpack
5 5 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.34%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.34%) Hardhat
6 4 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.00%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.67%) Maven
9 1 (0.33%) Phabricator
9 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (17.39%) Finance
2 43 (14.38%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (5.35%) Banking
5 12 (4.01%) Automotive
6 11 (3.68%) Games
7 6 (2.01%) Front Office
8 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.34%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Electronics
11 2 (0.67%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.67%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 178 (59.53%) Software Engineer
2 96 (32.11%) Senior
3 72 (24.08%) Senior Software Engineer
4 58 (19.40%) Developer
4 58 (19.40%) Embedded Engineer
4 58 (19.40%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 31 (10.37%) Lead
6 26 (8.70%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 26 (8.70%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 23 (7.69%) Rust Engineer
8 22 (7.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (6.69%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 20 (6.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 17 (5.69%) Rust Developer
11 15 (5.02%) Rust Software Engineer
12 13 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (4.35%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.35%) Senior Developer
13 12 (4.01%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.68%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.04%) React
2 19 (6.35%) GraphQL
3 18 (6.02%) Node.js
4 13 (4.35%) Laravel
5 10 (3.34%) Django
6 9 (3.01%) .NET
6 9 (3.01%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.68%) Smart Contracts
8 7 (2.34%) Spring
9 6 (2.01%) Flask
9 6 (2.01%) REST
9 6 (2.01%) Symfony
10 5 (1.67%) CSS
10 5 (1.67%) iOS SDK
10 5 (1.67%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (1.67%) WebSockets
11 4 (1.34%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.34%) CakePHP
11 4 (1.34%) HTML
11 4 (1.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.72%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (10.37%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.69%) Legacy Code
4 18 (6.02%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.35%) Client/Server
6 15 (5.02%) IoT
7 14 (4.68%) Algorithms
7 14 (4.68%) Hedge funds
8 12 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.34%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (3.34%) Virtual Team
10 9 (3.01%) Data Structures
10 9 (3.01%) Device Driver
10 9 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.67%) Blog
12 5 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.67%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.34%) PKI
13 4 (1.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 132 (44.15%) Linux
2 54 (18.06%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (3.01%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.68%) Android
5 7 (2.34%) Unix
6 6 (2.01%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (1.00%) Windows
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (72.24%) Software Engineering
2 65 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (17.06%) Computer Science
4 46 (15.38%) DevOps
5 40 (13.38%) Full Stack Development
6 38 (12.71%) Open Source
7 32 (10.70%) CI/CD
8 30 (10.03%) Agile
9 27 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (8.70%) Low Latency
11 23 (7.69%) Test Automation
12 21 (7.02%) Data Management
12 21 (7.02%) User Experience
13 20 (6.69%) Machine Learning
14 18 (6.02%) UX Design
15 17 (5.69%) Containerisation
15 17 (5.69%) Electronic Trading
16 16 (5.35%) Artificial Intelligence
16 16 (5.35%) Cryptography
17 14 (4.68%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 146 (48.83%) Python
2 127 (42.47%) C
3 89 (29.77%) Java
4 80 (26.76%) C++
5 76 (25.42%) Go
6 58 (19.40%) Embedded C
7 57 (19.06%) Bash
8 51 (17.06%) TypeScript
9 39 (13.04%) C#
10 29 (9.70%) JavaScript
11 25 (8.36%) Haskell
12 23 (7.69%) PHP
13 22 (7.36%) SQL
14 16 (5.35%) Ruby
15 14 (4.68%) Clojure
15 14 (4.68%) F#
16 8 (2.68%) Kotlin
17 7 (2.34%) Solidity
18 6 (2.01%) PowerShell
18 6 (2.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.38%) Degree
3 17 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.69%) Master's Degree
4 15 (5.02%) PhD
5 6 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.34%) MISRA
3 3 (1.00%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.00%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 28 (9.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (1.34%) Firmware
2 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.67%) Ceph
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.68%) Terraform
3 12 (4.01%) Ansible
4 4 (1.34%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.67%) Grafana
5 2 (0.67%) Knative
6 1 (0.33%) Podman
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (2.68%) Google
2 4 (1.34%) Foundry
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.00%) Coverity
3 3 (1.00%) Oracle
4 2 (0.67%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.67%) QNX
5 1 (0.33%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.33%) Vertica