Rust Job Trends in London

Rust
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Rust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 272 360
Rank change year-on-year +8 +88 +171
Permanent jobs citing Rust 131 124 130
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.93% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.76% 2.24% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 115 112 121
10th Percentile - - £76,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -7.41%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £150,000 - £172,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -17.50%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,742 5,530 8,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.76% 41.62% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,326 3,929 7,652
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Rust job vacancy trend in London

Rust
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in London over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Rust in London

Rust
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +16 16 £122,500 +19.51% 23
Rust
England

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (0.76%) Apache
1 1 (0.76%) Ethereum
1 1 (0.76%) Kinematics
1 1 (0.76%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.95%) AWS
2 15 (11.45%) Azure
3 14 (10.69%) GitHub
3 14 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (9.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (9.92%) AWS Step Functions
4 13 (9.92%) Pulumi
4 13 (9.92%) Serverless
5 4 (3.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.92%) DSL
2 1 (0.76%) 4G
2 1 (0.76%) 5G
2 1 (0.76%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.76%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.76%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
2 1 (0.76%) RTP
2 1 (0.76%) SS7
2 1 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (11.45%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.69%) GitLab
3 2 (1.53%) Git
4 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.76%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 34 (25.95%) Finance
2 9 (6.87%) Games
3 8 (6.11%) Front Office
4 7 (5.34%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Banking
6 5 (3.82%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.53%) Military
9 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (51.91%) Software Engineer
2 35 (26.72%) Senior
3 34 (25.95%) Rust Engineer
4 26 (19.85%) Rust Software Engineer
5 25 (19.08%) Senior Software Engineer
6 20 (15.27%) Developer
7 15 (11.45%) C++ Software Engineer
8 14 (10.69%) Junior
8 14 (10.69%) Rust Developer
9 13 (9.92%) Architect
9 13 (9.92%) AWS Architect
9 13 (9.92%) AWS Security Architect
9 13 (9.92%) Lead
9 13 (9.92%) Security Architect
10 12 (9.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (9.16%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 12 (9.16%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 11 (8.40%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (6.11%) Junior Software Engineer
13 7 (5.34%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.45%) React
2 13 (9.92%) AWS CDK
3 12 (9.16%) GraphQL
4 8 (6.11%) .NET
4 8 (6.11%) .NET Core
4 8 (6.11%) React Native
4 8 (6.11%) Redux
4 8 (6.11%) SignalR
5 6 (4.58%) Django
5 6 (4.58%) FastAPI
5 6 (4.58%) Kafka
6 4 (3.05%) web3js
7 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.53%) Smart Contracts
8 1 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.76%) gRPC
8 1 (0.76%) Middleware
8 1 (0.76%) Node.js
8 1 (0.76%) RESTful
8 1 (0.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.72%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (21.37%) Cloud Native
3 12 (9.16%) Legacy Code
4 10 (7.63%) Algorithms
4 10 (7.63%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.11%) AI Agents
5 8 (6.11%) Sports Betting
6 7 (5.34%) Blockchain
6 7 (5.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.05%) Web3
8 3 (2.29%) Robotics
9 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.76%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.76%) Derivative
10 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Energy Derivatives
10 1 (0.76%) FPGA
10 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.76%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.85%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (62.60%) Software Engineering
2 33 (25.19%) CI/CD
3 26 (19.85%) Low Latency
4 22 (16.79%) High-Frequency Trading
5 20 (15.27%) AI
5 20 (15.27%) Computer Science
6 19 (14.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (13.74%) DevOps
7 18 (13.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (12.98%) Multithreading
9 16 (12.21%) Machine Learning
10 15 (11.45%) Open Source
11 14 (10.69%) OO
12 13 (9.92%) Blue Team
12 13 (9.92%) Cryptography
12 13 (9.92%) Observability
12 13 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (9.92%) Purple Team
12 13 (9.92%) Red Team
12 13 (9.92%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 57 (43.51%) C++
2 45 (34.35%) Go
3 39 (29.77%) Python
4 31 (23.66%) Java
5 23 (17.56%) TypeScript
6 22 (16.79%) C#
7 14 (10.69%) C
8 10 (7.63%) SQL
9 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.53%) Erlang
10 2 (1.53%) OCaml
11 1 (0.76%) Bash
11 1 (0.76%) Perl
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (21.37%) Degree
2 13 (9.92%) OSCP
3 11 (8.40%) Master's Degree
4 8 (6.11%) PhD
5 4 (3.05%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 12 (9.16%) Virtual Machines
1 12 (9.16%) Virtual Servers
2 9 (6.87%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) Firmware
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 38 (29.01%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.74%) Terraform
3 6 (4.58%) Grafana
3 6 (4.58%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (6.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.05%) Databricks
3 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.76%) FXall
3 1 (0.76%) Google
3 1 (0.76%) VMware