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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 285 427
Rank change year-on-year -11 +142 +34
Permanent jobs citing Rust 94 172 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.79% 0.90% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 2.17% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 68 114 47
10th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £187,500
90th Percentile £131,500 £140,000 £250,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +26.67% -20.00%

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 4,664 7,910 10,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.21% 41.40% 46.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,139 5,280 9,022
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,375 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,375 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.56%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Rust 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +49 12 £142,500 +67.65% 6
South London +19 3 £46,500 -
West London - 2 - - 1
East London - 2 - - 1
Rust
England

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (1.06%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 36 (38.30%) AWS
2 25 (26.60%) Azure
3 16 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (6.38%) Serverless
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.13%) GitHub
8 1 (1.06%) GCP
8 1 (1.06%) SaaS
8 1 (1.06%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) HTTP
2 1 (1.06%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.38%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.38%) MySQL
4 5 (5.32%) Redis
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.26%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.19%) CockroachDB
6 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.06%) Parquet
7 1 (1.06%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JUnit
1 3 (3.19%) Mockito
2 2 (2.13%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.06%) GitLab
3 1 (1.06%) Vite
General
1 22 (23.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (20.21%) Finance
3 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.51%) Law
5 7 (7.45%) Banking
6 5 (5.32%) Front Office
6 5 (5.32%) Social Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Marketing
8 3 (3.19%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.06%) Automotive
10 1 (1.06%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 58 (61.70%) Software Engineer
2 36 (38.30%) Senior
3 29 (30.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (21.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (21.28%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 20 (21.28%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 14 (14.89%) Developer
5 14 (14.89%) Lead
6 12 (12.77%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) Lead Software Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) Software Developer
7 8 (8.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Associate Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Java Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Rust Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Java Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.66%) React
2 22 (23.40%) GraphQL
3 17 (18.09%) .NET
4 12 (12.77%) Node.js
4 12 (12.77%) Pandas
5 9 (9.57%) gRPC
6 8 (8.51%) FastAPI
7 5 (5.32%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.32%) Kafka
7 5 (5.32%) PyTorch
7 5 (5.32%) React Native
7 5 (5.32%) Redux
7 5 (5.32%) SignalR
7 5 (5.32%) Spring
7 5 (5.32%) TensorFlow
8 4 (4.26%) Django
8 4 (4.26%) OAuth
8 4 (4.26%) OpenID
8 4 (4.26%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (4.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.60%) Cloud Native
2 23 (24.47%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (21.28%) Legacy Code
4 12 (12.77%) Cyberattack
5 9 (9.57%) AI Agents
6 8 (8.51%) Public Cloud
7 5 (5.32%) Data Structures
8 4 (4.26%) Blockchain
8 4 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (4.26%) Market Risk
9 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
9 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (2.13%) Derivative
10 2 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (2.13%) Web3
11 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
11 1 (1.06%) Robotics
11 1 (1.06%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 41 (43.62%) Linux
2 12 (12.77%) Android
3 4 (4.26%) Windows
4 1 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (79.79%) Software Engineering
2 30 (31.91%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (26.60%) Agile
4 22 (23.40%) CI/CD
5 18 (19.15%) Containerisation
5 18 (19.15%) Mathematics
6 17 (18.09%) Microservices
6 17 (18.09%) OO
7 15 (15.96%) Secure Coding
8 14 (14.89%) Event-Driven
9 12 (12.77%) Android Development
9 12 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (12.77%) Design Patterns
9 12 (12.77%) Kanban
9 12 (12.77%) Line Management
9 12 (12.77%) OOP
9 12 (12.77%) OWASP
9 12 (12.77%) Statistics
10 11 (11.70%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 49 (52.13%) C++
2 43 (45.74%) Go
3 39 (41.49%) Python
4 32 (34.04%) Java
5 30 (31.91%) TypeScript
6 24 (25.53%) C
7 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.38%) C#
9 5 (5.32%) SQL
10 3 (3.19%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.13%) PHP
11 2 (2.13%) Solidity
12 1 (1.06%) Dart
12 1 (1.06%) Embedded C
12 1 (1.06%) MATLAB
12 1 (1.06%) R
12 1 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.77%) DV Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) Degree
4 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 23 (24.47%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (69.15%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.02%) Terraform
3 12 (12.77%) Ansible
4 4 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.06%) Argo
5 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.06%) systemd
Vendors
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.26%) Google
2 4 (4.26%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.19%) Alibaba
4 2 (2.13%) Solarflare
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle