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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 306 356
Rank change year-on-year +25 +50 +206
Permanent jobs citing Rust 103 123 125
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.80% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.31% 1.97% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 95 106 114
10th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £75,375
25th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £101,250 £98,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +2.53% -24.04%
75th Percentile £121,250 £115,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £145,000 £172,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year +5.26% +13.67% -20.40%

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 4,453 6,229 9,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.97% 40.46% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,130 3,987 7,825
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 31 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 31 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 +32 19 £140,000 +40.00% 16
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 (0.97%) Apache
1 1 (0.97%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.24%) AWS
2 14 (13.59%) Azure
3 8 (7.77%) GitHub
4 6 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.83%) AWS Step Functions
4 6 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (5.83%) Pulumi
4 6 (5.83%) Serverless
5 4 (3.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.83%) DSL
2 1 (0.97%) 4G
2 1 (0.97%) 5G
2 1 (0.97%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.97%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.97%) RTP
2 1 (0.97%) SS7
2 1 (0.97%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) GitLab
1 7 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.94%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.97%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (15.53%) Finance
2 6 (5.83%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.88%) Games
5 3 (2.91%) Front Office
6 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.94%) Military
6 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Advertising
7 1 (0.97%) Banking
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (50.49%) Software Engineer
2 33 (32.04%) Senior
3 24 (23.30%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (16.50%) Rust Engineer
5 16 (15.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (15.53%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 16 (15.53%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 15 (14.56%) Lead
7 13 (12.62%) Lead Software Engineer
8 12 (11.65%) Developer
9 11 (10.68%) Rust Developer
10 9 (8.74%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (8.74%) Rust Software Engineer
11 8 (7.77%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 8 (7.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.83%) Architect
12 6 (5.83%) AWS Architect
12 6 (5.83%) AWS Security Architect
12 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (5.83%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.53%) React
2 14 (13.59%) GraphQL
3 10 (9.71%) .NET
3 10 (9.71%) .NET Core
3 10 (9.71%) React Native
3 10 (9.71%) Redux
3 10 (9.71%) SignalR
4 8 (7.77%) Django
4 8 (7.77%) FastAPI
5 6 (5.83%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.94%) DPDK
6 2 (1.94%) web3js
7 1 (0.97%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.97%) gRPC
7 1 (0.97%) Node.js
7 1 (0.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.27%) Cloud Native
2 23 (22.33%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (15.53%) Legacy Code
4 10 (9.71%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.85%) Blockchain
6 4 (3.88%) Sports Betting
7 3 (2.91%) Robotics
8 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.94%) FPGA
8 2 (1.94%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.94%) Web3
9 1 (0.97%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.97%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.97%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (0.97%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (61.17%) Software Engineering
2 23 (22.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 22 (21.36%) AI
4 21 (20.39%) CI/CD
5 17 (16.50%) Low Latency
5 17 (16.50%) Machine Learning
6 16 (15.53%) Open Source
7 14 (13.59%) Network Virtualisation
8 13 (12.62%) High-Frequency Trading
8 13 (12.62%) Microservices
9 12 (11.65%) OO
10 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (9.71%) Event-Driven
11 10 (9.71%) Fintech
11 10 (9.71%) Generative AI
11 10 (9.71%) Workflow
12 9 (8.74%) DevOps
13 8 (7.77%) Customer Experience
13 8 (7.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 8 (7.77%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.78%) C++
2 39 (37.86%) Go
3 30 (29.13%) Python
4 26 (25.24%) TypeScript
5 25 (24.27%) Java
6 20 (19.42%) C
7 16 (15.53%) C#
8 5 (4.85%) SQL
9 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.97%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (15.53%) Degree
2 6 (5.83%) OSCP
3 5 (4.85%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.88%) PhD
4 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 14 (13.59%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (13.59%) Virtual Servers
2 13 (12.62%) Docker
3 1 (0.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (35.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.68%) Terraform
3 5 (4.85%) Grafana
4 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (9.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.94%) Solarflare