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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 274 341
Rank change year-on-year -31 +67 +151
Permanent jobs citing Rust 123 130 171
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.55% 1.03% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.29% 2.49% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 100 101 124
10th Percentile £55,000 £85,000 £76,625
25th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £161,625 £120,000 £170,250
England median annual salary £95,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -

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 5,366 5,231 9,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.09% 41.62% 40.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,788 3,634 7,146
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,063 £60,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +6 22 £100,000 -2.44% 14
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 5 (4.07%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.81%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.08%) AWS
2 12 (9.76%) Azure
3 11 (8.94%) GitHub
3 11 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (8.13%) AWS Step Functions
4 10 (8.13%) Pulumi
4 10 (8.13%) Serverless
5 4 (3.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.13%) DSL
2 3 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.81%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
3 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.81%) Redis
2 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.76%) GitLab
3 2 (1.63%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.63%) Git
3 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.81%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 41 (33.33%) Finance
2 14 (11.38%) Banking
3 10 (8.13%) Games
4 9 (7.32%) Front Office
4 9 (7.32%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.25%) Social Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
9 1 (0.81%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (42.28%) Software Engineer
2 34 (27.64%) Rust Engineer
3 28 (22.76%) Developer
4 25 (20.33%) Rust Software Engineer
5 23 (18.70%) Rust Developer
6 18 (14.63%) Senior
7 16 (13.01%) Junior
8 12 (9.76%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (8.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (8.13%) Architect
10 10 (8.13%) AWS Architect
10 10 (8.13%) AWS Security Architect
10 10 (8.13%) Security Architect
11 9 (7.32%) Lead
12 8 (6.50%) Junior Developer
12 8 (6.50%) Junior Software Engineer
13 6 (4.88%) Java Engineer
13 6 (4.88%) Lead Software Engineer
13 6 (4.88%) Senior Developer
14 5 (4.07%) Junior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.76%) React
2 10 (8.13%) AWS CDK
3 8 (6.50%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (5.69%) Kafka
5 6 (4.88%) Smart Contracts
5 6 (4.88%) web3js
6 3 (2.44%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.63%) DPDK
7 2 (1.63%) eBPF
7 2 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.63%) REST
7 2 (1.63%) Vue
8 1 (0.81%) Loki
8 1 (0.81%) Middleware
8 1 (0.81%) MobX
8 1 (0.81%) Redux
8 1 (0.81%) RESTful
8 1 (0.81%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.07%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (12.20%) Algorithms
3 12 (9.76%) Blockchain
4 11 (8.94%) Cloud Native
4 11 (8.94%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.50%) Sports Betting
6 7 (5.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (4.88%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.88%) Web3
8 4 (3.25%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (3.25%) Hedge funds
8 4 (3.25%) Robotics
9 3 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.44%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.44%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.63%) SIMD
11 1 (0.81%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.81%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Linux
2 6 (4.88%) Unix
3 3 (2.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.81%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (68.29%) Software Engineering
2 34 (27.64%) Low Latency
3 33 (26.83%) CI/CD
4 29 (23.58%) Computer Science
5 25 (20.33%) High-Frequency Trading
6 22 (17.89%) DevOps
7 20 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (15.45%) Multithreading
9 15 (12.20%) Agile
9 15 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (10.57%) Electronic Trading
10 13 (10.57%) Market Making
10 13 (10.57%) Red Team
11 12 (9.76%) AI
11 12 (9.76%) Observability
12 11 (8.94%) Cloud Security
13 10 (8.13%) DevSecOps
13 10 (8.13%) Incident Response
13 10 (8.13%) SBOM
13 10 (8.13%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 56 (45.53%) C++
2 43 (34.96%) Go
3 40 (32.52%) Python
4 37 (30.08%) Java
5 23 (18.70%) C#
6 19 (15.45%) TypeScript
7 12 (9.76%) C
8 11 (8.94%) Bash
9 7 (5.69%) SQL
10 6 (4.88%) VBA
11 5 (4.07%) Erlang
12 4 (3.25%) Perl
13 3 (2.44%) Clojure
13 3 (2.44%) Objective-C
13 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
13 3 (2.44%) Ruby
13 3 (2.44%) Scala
14 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
14 2 (1.63%) OCaml
15 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (27.64%) Degree
2 16 (13.01%) OSCP
3 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (8.13%) Master's Degree
5 9 (7.32%) DV Cleared
6 8 (6.50%) PhD
7 5 (4.07%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.44%) CCSAM
8 3 (2.44%) CEH
8 3 (2.44%) CREST Certified
8 3 (2.44%) GPEN
8 3 (2.44%) GXPN
8 3 (2.44%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.81%) NIST
2 1 (0.81%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.81%) Firmware
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (16.26%) Terraform
2 17 (13.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.13%) Grafana
3 10 (8.13%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.81%) Argo
5 1 (0.81%) Kibana
5 1 (0.81%) logstash
5 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (8.13%) Palantir
2 6 (4.88%) Splunk
3 4 (3.25%) Databricks
4 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.81%) FXall
4 1 (0.81%) Google
4 1 (0.81%) Okta
4 1 (0.81%) VMware