Rust Job Trends in England

Rust
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Rust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 449 513
Rank change year-on-year -19 +64 +259
Permanent jobs citing Rust 174 196 269
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.48% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.49% 1.38% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 154 146 221
10th Percentile £55,375 £65,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £88,125 £85,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -17.50%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £145,500 - £165,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
England

Rust falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,693 14,245 24,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.43% 34.66% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,576 9,126 20,959
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,563 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Rust relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Rust job vacancy trend in England

Rust
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in England over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Rust in England

Rust
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the England region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
London +40 127 £100,000 -2.44% 48
South East -31 23 £52,500 -50.00% 14
Midlands +3 8 £80,000 +39.13% 8
South West - 8 £40,792 - 10
East Midlands -23 5 £80,000 +39.13% 1
East of England -12 4 £100,000 +37.93% 21
North West -19 3 £85,000 +49.12% 3
North of England -36 3 £85,000 +54.55% 10
West Midlands - 3 £100,000 - 7
Rust
UK

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.72%) Apache
2 2 (1.15%) Apache Qpid
3 1 (0.57%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 51 (29.31%) AWS
2 29 (16.67%) Azure
3 18 (10.34%) GCP
4 14 (8.05%) GitHub
4 14 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (7.47%) Serverless
6 12 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 12 (6.90%) Pulumi
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.90%) DSL
2 4 (2.30%) MQTT
2 4 (2.30%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.57%) 4G
4 1 (0.57%) 5G
4 1 (0.57%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.57%) RTP
4 1 (0.57%) SS7
4 1 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.72%) Redis
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Arrow
4 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.57%) Parquet
4 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (10.92%) GitLab
2 15 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.02%) Git
4 3 (1.72%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.57%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 31 (17.82%) Finance
2 12 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.02%) Front Office
3 7 (4.02%) Games
4 5 (2.87%) Banking
4 5 (2.87%) Electronics
5 4 (2.30%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.15%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.15%) Military
7 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Advertising
8 1 (0.57%) Aviation
8 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (55.75%) Software Engineer
2 42 (24.14%) Senior
3 40 (22.99%) Rust Engineer
4 32 (18.39%) Rust Software Engineer
5 29 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 23 (13.22%) Developer
7 18 (10.34%) C++ Software Engineer
7 18 (10.34%) Rust Developer
8 14 (8.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (8.05%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 14 (8.05%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 14 (8.05%) Lead
9 12 (6.90%) Architect
9 12 (6.90%) AWS Architect
9 12 (6.90%) AWS Security Architect
9 12 (6.90%) Junior
9 12 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
9 12 (6.90%) Security Architect
10 9 (5.17%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.20%) React
2 12 (6.90%) AWS CDK
2 12 (6.90%) GraphQL
3 11 (6.32%) .NET
4 10 (5.75%) Kafka
5 9 (5.17%) .NET Core
5 9 (5.17%) React Native
5 9 (5.17%) Redux
5 9 (5.17%) SignalR
6 8 (4.60%) Django
6 8 (4.60%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.72%) RESTful
8 2 (1.15%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.15%) gRPC
8 2 (1.15%) HTML
8 2 (1.15%) Vue
8 2 (1.15%) web3js
9 1 (0.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.56%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.05%) Algorithms
3 14 (8.05%) Legacy Code
4 9 (5.17%) AI Agents
4 9 (5.17%) Client/Server
5 8 (4.60%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.45%) Sports Betting
7 5 (2.87%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.87%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.72%) Robotics
10 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.15%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.15%) Web3
11 1 (0.57%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.57%) Derivative
11 1 (0.57%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.56%) Linux
2 3 (1.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.57%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (63.79%) Software Engineering
2 40 (22.99%) CI/CD
3 30 (17.24%) AI
4 27 (15.52%) Low Latency
5 26 (14.94%) Computer Science
6 24 (13.79%) High-Frequency Trading
7 22 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (11.49%) Machine Learning
8 20 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (10.92%) Test Automation
10 18 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (9.77%) DevOps
11 17 (9.77%) DevSecOps
12 16 (9.20%) Observability
12 16 (9.20%) Open Source
13 15 (8.62%) Agile
13 15 (8.62%) Microservices
13 15 (8.62%) OO
14 14 (8.05%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.68%) C++
2 67 (38.51%) Python
3 45 (25.86%) Go
4 33 (18.97%) Java
5 32 (18.39%) C
6 28 (16.09%) TypeScript
7 22 (12.64%) C#
8 13 (7.47%) JavaScript
9 10 (5.75%) SQL
10 2 (1.15%) Bash
10 2 (1.15%) Erlang
10 2 (1.15%) OCaml
10 2 (1.15%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.57%) Dart
11 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (25.86%) Degree
2 23 (13.22%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.47%) Master's Degree
5 12 (6.90%) OSCP
6 10 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) QA
System Software
1 19 (10.92%) Docker
2 14 (8.05%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (8.05%) Virtual Servers
3 10 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.17%) KVM
5 1 (0.57%) Firmware
5 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 46 (26.44%) Kubernetes
2 23 (13.22%) Terraform
3 13 (7.47%) Grafana
4 11 (6.32%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.02%) Ansible
6 1 (0.57%) Kibana
6 1 (0.57%) logstash
6 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (5.75%) VMware
2 9 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.72%) Databricks
4 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.57%) FXall
4 1 (0.57%) Google
4 1 (0.57%) Tenable