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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 289 352
Rank change year-on-year -26 +63 +200
Permanent jobs citing Rust 80 138 84
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.58% 0.87% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.87% 2.09% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 76 110 76
10th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £76,250
25th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -20.83%
75th Percentile £123,125 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £145,000 £150,625
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%

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 4,277 6,602 7,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.19% 41.80% 44.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,006 4,266 6,766
10th Percentile £44,975 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +61 19 £140,000 +64.71% 11
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 (1.25%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.75%) AWS
2 12 (15.00%) Azure
3 4 (5.00%) GitHub
4 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (2.50%) GCP
4 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.50%) Pulumi
4 2 (2.50%) Serverless
5 1 (1.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.25%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) GitLab
2 2 (2.50%) CircleCI
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) Vite
General
1 10 (12.50%) Finance
2 5 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Front Office
4 2 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 23 (28.75%) Senior
3 18 (22.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (20.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 16 (20.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 12 (15.00%) Rust Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Lead
6 10 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
7 9 (11.25%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (10.00%) Developer
8 8 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 8 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Rust Developer
10 4 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Rust Software Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 2 (2.50%) Junior Developer
12 2 (2.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.25%) React
2 14 (17.50%) GraphQL
3 10 (12.50%) .NET
3 10 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 10 (12.50%) React Native
3 10 (12.50%) Redux
3 10 (12.50%) SignalR
4 9 (11.25%) Django
4 9 (11.25%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.75%) web3js
6 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.50%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.50%) DPDK
7 1 (1.25%) CSS
7 1 (1.25%) gRPC
7 1 (1.25%) jQuery
7 1 (1.25%) Node.js
7 1 (1.25%) pgvector
7 1 (1.25%) REST
7 1 (1.25%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Cloud Native
1 19 (23.75%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (20.00%) Legacy Code
3 10 (12.50%) AI Agents
4 6 (7.50%) Blockchain
5 3 (3.75%) Web3
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) FPGA
6 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.50%) Robotics
7 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (61.25%) Software Engineering
2 24 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (21.25%) AI
4 16 (20.00%) Open Source
5 14 (17.50%) Machine Learning
5 14 (17.50%) Network Virtualisation
6 12 (15.00%) Microservices
6 12 (15.00%) OO
7 10 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 10 (12.50%) Fintech
7 10 (12.50%) Generative AI
7 10 (12.50%) Low Latency
7 10 (12.50%) Workflow
8 8 (10.00%) Customer Experience
8 8 (10.00%) Domain Models
8 8 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
9 7 (8.75%) CI/CD
10 6 (7.50%) High-Frequency Trading
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) C++
2 27 (33.75%) TypeScript
3 25 (31.25%) Go
3 25 (31.25%) Python
4 18 (22.50%) C
5 17 (21.25%) Java
6 10 (12.50%) C#
7 3 (3.75%) SQL
8 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.25%) PHP
9 1 (1.25%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) Degree
2 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) OSCP
3 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (17.50%) Virtual Servers
2 13 (16.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.50%) Solarflare