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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 286 400
Rank change year-on-year -2 +114 +85
Permanent jobs citing Rust 91 162 66
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.92% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.05% 2.17% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 78 111 54
10th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £53,250
25th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £78,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £161,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £145,000 £250,000
England median annual salary £105,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +18.75% -20.20%

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 4,438 7,480 9,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.59% 42.67% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,954 4,958 7,995
10th Percentile £48,575 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 +54 14 £140,000 +64.71% 48
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 (1.10%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.68%) AWS
1 17 (18.68%) Azure
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon Kinesis
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon SageMaker
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (4.40%) Serverless
3 2 (2.20%) GitHub
4 1 (1.10%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.10%) Firewall
1 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.40%) DynamoDB
2 4 (4.40%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (4.40%) MySQL
2 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.40%) Redis
3 3 (3.30%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.10%) Parquet
4 1 (1.10%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) JUnit
1 3 (3.30%) Mockito
2 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Vite
General
1 16 (17.58%) Finance
2 8 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (8.79%) Law
2 8 (8.79%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.40%) Banking
3 4 (4.40%) Marketing
4 3 (3.30%) Front Office
4 3 (3.30%) Wholesale Banking
5 2 (2.20%) Military
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Automotive
6 1 (1.10%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 61 (67.03%) Software Engineer
2 34 (37.36%) Senior
3 31 (34.07%) Senior Software Engineer
4 25 (27.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (27.47%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 25 (27.47%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Lead
5 13 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
6 12 (13.19%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Associate Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Rust Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
12 3 (3.30%) Senior Java Engineer
12 3 (3.30%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 2 (2.20%) Developer
13 2 (2.20%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (32.97%) React
2 24 (26.37%) GraphQL
3 13 (14.29%) .NET
3 13 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 13 (14.29%) React Native
3 13 (14.29%) Redux
3 13 (14.29%) SignalR
4 11 (12.09%) FastAPI
5 7 (7.69%) Django
6 5 (5.49%) PyTorch
6 5 (5.49%) TensorFlow
7 4 (4.40%) gRPC
7 4 (4.40%) JSON Web Signature
7 4 (4.40%) JWT
7 4 (4.40%) Kafka
7 4 (4.40%) LangChain
7 4 (4.40%) LangGraph
7 4 (4.40%) OAuth
7 4 (4.40%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (4.40%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.87%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (27.47%) Cloud Native
2 25 (27.47%) Legacy Code
3 17 (18.68%) AI Agents
4 8 (8.79%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.30%) Blockchain
6 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.30%) Web3
7 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.20%) Robotics
8 1 (1.10%) Device Driver
8 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.10%) FPGA
8 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.10%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.07%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (73.63%) Software Engineering
2 38 (41.76%) Full-Stack Development
3 21 (23.08%) AI
4 19 (20.88%) Microservices
5 17 (18.68%) Generative AI
6 14 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 14 (15.38%) OO
7 13 (14.29%) Workflow
8 12 (13.19%) Event-Driven
8 12 (13.19%) Open Source
9 10 (10.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (10.99%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (9.89%) Mobile First
10 9 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (8.79%) Agile
11 8 (8.79%) Fintech
11 8 (8.79%) Low Latency
12 6 (6.59%) Customer Experience
12 6 (6.59%) Domain Models
12 6 (6.59%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.05%) TypeScript
2 38 (41.76%) C++
3 32 (35.16%) Go
4 30 (32.97%) Python
5 29 (31.87%) C
6 22 (24.18%) Java
7 14 (15.38%) C#
8 7 (7.69%) SQL
9 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.20%) PHP
11 1 (1.10%) Dart
11 1 (1.10%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.10%) R
11 1 (1.10%) Ruby
11 1 (1.10%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 4 (4.40%) Degree
2 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Docker
2 10 (10.99%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (10.99%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (62.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.30%) Terraform
4 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.10%) systemd
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Google
2 4 (4.40%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.20%) Solarflare
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle