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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 616 732 566
Rank change year-on-year +116 -166 +193
Permanent jobs citing Rust 307 254 893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.25% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 0.57% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 268 191 126
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year - -4.48% +11.67%
75th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £137,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.43% +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 33,299 44,724 84,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.71% 43.25% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,064 28,554 44,071
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 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Rust in the UK

Rust
Top 14 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 6 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 +150 279 £80,000 -3.03% 110
UK excluding London +39 149 £60,000 -9.43% 37
London +146 147 £98,750 -5.95% 77
Work from Home +110 126 £60,000 -25.00% 51
South West +26 69 £71,250 +9.62% 8
North of England +63 24 £50,000 +12.75% 9
Scotland -46 23 £100,000 - 2
North West +34 22 £50,000 -39.39% 7
East of England +29 18 £55,000 +29.41% 12
Midlands +3 11 £65,000 -35.00% 1
East Midlands -4 11 £65,000 +73.33% 1
South East -25 3 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +88 2 £65,000 +46.58% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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 (1.95%) Ethereum
1 6 (1.95%) nginx
2 4 (1.30%) OpenZeppelin
3 3 (0.98%) Apache
3 3 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.65%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.65%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 77 (25.08%) AWS
2 23 (7.49%) Azure
3 13 (4.23%) GCP
4 10 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (3.26%) GitHub
5 8 (2.61%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.28%) SaaS
7 6 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.95%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.63%) Serverless
9 4 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.30%) Discord
10 2 (0.65%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.33%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.33%) Fastly
11 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) IPFS
2 2 (0.65%) 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 13 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.26%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.98%) Big Data
5 3 (0.98%) MySQL
5 3 (0.98%) Parquet
5 3 (0.98%) Redis
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.33%) Flink
7 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (3.91%) Git
1 12 (3.91%) GitLab
2 8 (2.61%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.61%) JIRA
2 8 (2.61%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.95%) webpack
4 5 (1.63%) Artifactory
4 5 (1.63%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.30%) Hardhat
6 3 (0.98%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.65%) Maven
8 1 (0.33%) Phabricator
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (17.59%) Finance
2 45 (14.66%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (5.21%) Banking
5 12 (3.91%) Automotive
6 11 (3.58%) Games
7 6 (1.95%) Front Office
8 5 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.30%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.98%) Electronics
11 2 (0.65%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (58.96%) Software Engineer
2 97 (31.60%) Senior
3 73 (23.78%) Senior Software Engineer
4 61 (19.87%) Developer
5 58 (18.89%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (18.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 32 (10.42%) Lead
7 26 (8.47%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.47%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (7.82%) Rust Engineer
9 22 (7.17%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 22 (7.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 18 (5.86%) Rust Developer
11 15 (4.89%) Rust Software Engineer
12 14 (4.56%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (4.56%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.23%) Senior Developer
14 11 (3.58%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.70%) React
2 19 (6.19%) GraphQL
3 18 (5.86%) Node.js
4 13 (4.23%) Laravel
5 11 (3.58%) Django
6 10 (3.26%) .NET
6 10 (3.26%) Smart Contracts
7 9 (2.93%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.28%) Spring
9 6 (1.95%) Flask
9 6 (1.95%) REST
9 6 (1.95%) Ruby on Rails
9 6 (1.95%) Symfony
10 5 (1.63%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.63%) CSS
10 5 (1.63%) iOS SDK
10 5 (1.63%) WebSockets
11 4 (1.30%) Truffle
11 4 (1.30%) web3js
11 4 (1.30%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.94%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (11.40%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.17%) Legacy Code
4 20 (6.51%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.21%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.89%) Algorithms
6 15 (4.89%) IoT
7 14 (4.56%) Hedge funds
8 12 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.26%) Data Structures
9 10 (3.26%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (3.26%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.93%) Device Driver
10 9 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.63%) Blog
12 5 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.30%) PKI
13 4 (1.30%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 136 (44.30%) Linux
2 54 (17.59%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (2.93%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.61%) Android
4 8 (2.61%) Unix
5 6 (1.95%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.98%) Windows
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (71.99%) Software Engineering
2 65 (21.17%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (16.61%) Computer Science
4 48 (15.64%) DevOps
5 40 (13.03%) Full Stack Development
6 39 (12.70%) Open Source
7 34 (11.07%) CI/CD
8 30 (9.77%) Agile
9 28 (9.12%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (8.47%) Low Latency
11 23 (7.49%) Test Automation
12 21 (6.84%) Data Management
12 21 (6.84%) User Experience
13 20 (6.51%) Machine Learning
14 18 (5.86%) Containerisation
14 18 (5.86%) UX Design
15 17 (5.54%) Electronic Trading
16 16 (5.21%) Artificial Intelligence
16 16 (5.21%) Cryptography
17 14 (4.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 151 (49.19%) Python
2 130 (42.35%) C
3 90 (29.32%) Java
4 83 (27.04%) C++
5 82 (26.71%) Go
6 58 (18.89%) Embedded C
7 57 (18.57%) Bash
8 52 (16.94%) TypeScript
9 41 (13.36%) C#
10 29 (9.45%) JavaScript
11 25 (8.14%) Haskell
12 23 (7.49%) PHP
13 22 (7.17%) SQL
14 18 (5.86%) Ruby
15 14 (4.56%) Clojure
15 14 (4.56%) F#
16 8 (2.61%) Kotlin
17 7 (2.28%) Solidity
18 6 (1.95%) PowerShell
18 6 (1.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.98%) Degree
3 17 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.54%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.89%) PhD
5 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.23%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.28%) MISRA
3 3 (0.98%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.98%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 29 (9.45%) Docker
2 4 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (1.30%) Firmware
2 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.65%) Ceph
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (22.15%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.86%) Terraform
3 13 (4.23%) Ansible
4 5 (1.63%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.65%) Grafana
6 2 (0.65%) Knative
7 1 (0.33%) Podman
7 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (2.61%) Google
2 4 (1.30%) Foundry
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.98%) Coverity
3 3 (0.98%) Oracle
4 2 (0.65%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.65%) QNX
5 1 (0.33%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.33%) Vertica