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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 278 302
Rank change year-on-year -48 +24 +177
Permanent jobs citing Rust 110 116 157
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.47% 0.94% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% 2.25% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 91 88 105
10th Percentile £50,000 £85,000 £76,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £107,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +13.16% -20.83%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £120,000 £133,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +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 5,497 5,153 7,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.53% 41.75% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,832 3,551 5,875
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £136,250
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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +7 23 £100,000 -16.67% 13
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 (4.55%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.91%) Apache
2 1 (0.91%) Solana
Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.27%) AWS
2 13 (11.82%) Azure
3 7 (6.36%) GitHub
3 7 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
4 6 (5.45%) Pulumi
4 6 (5.45%) Serverless
5 5 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.45%) DSL
2 3 (2.73%) Network Security
3 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.91%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.91%) MySQL
2 1 (0.91%) Redis
2 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.36%) GitLab
3 2 (1.82%) Git
4 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.91%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.91%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.91%) Subversion
General
1 36 (32.73%) Finance
2 13 (11.82%) Banking
3 9 (8.18%) Investment Banking
4 7 (6.36%) Front Office
5 6 (5.45%) Games
5 6 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.73%) Social Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.91%) Law
8 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (40.91%) Software Engineer
2 33 (30.00%) Rust Engineer
3 27 (24.55%) Developer
4 24 (21.82%) Rust Software Engineer
5 20 (18.18%) Rust Developer
6 13 (11.82%) Junior
7 12 (10.91%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (8.18%) Senior
9 7 (6.36%) Architect
9 7 (6.36%) Junior Developer
9 7 (6.36%) Lead
10 6 (5.45%) AWS Architect
10 6 (5.45%) AWS Security Architect
10 6 (5.45%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Junior Software Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Security Architect
11 5 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (3.64%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.82%) React
2 8 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.36%) Kafka
4 6 (5.45%) AWS CDK
4 6 (5.45%) Smart Contracts
4 6 (5.45%) web3js
5 3 (2.73%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.82%) DPDK
6 2 (1.82%) eBPF
6 2 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.82%) Middleware
6 2 (1.82%) OpenMP
6 2 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.82%) REST
7 1 (0.91%) .NET
7 1 (0.91%) Loki
7 1 (0.91%) Redux
7 1 (0.91%) RESTful
7 1 (0.91%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.27%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (14.55%) Algorithms
3 13 (11.82%) Data Structures
4 12 (10.91%) Blockchain
5 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.45%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.45%) Web3
7 5 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (3.64%) Hedge funds
8 4 (3.64%) Sports Betting
9 3 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.73%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.73%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.73%) Robotics
9 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.82%) CUDA
10 2 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.82%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.82%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Unix
3 3 (2.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (71.82%) Software Engineering
2 29 (26.36%) Low Latency
3 28 (25.45%) Computer Science
4 22 (20.00%) High-Frequency Trading
5 20 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 19 (17.27%) Multithreading
7 18 (16.36%) DevOps
8 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.82%) Agile
11 11 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
12 10 (9.09%) AI
12 10 (9.09%) Decision-Making
12 10 (9.09%) Process Improvement
13 9 (8.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (8.18%) Machine Learning
13 9 (8.18%) Market Making
13 9 (8.18%) Quantitative Finance
13 9 (8.18%) Red Team
14 7 (6.36%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 48 (43.64%) C++
2 37 (33.64%) Python
3 33 (30.00%) Go
4 31 (28.18%) Java
5 20 (18.18%) C#
5 20 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.82%) Bash
6 13 (11.82%) C
7 7 (6.36%) VBA
8 5 (4.55%) Erlang
8 5 (4.55%) SQL
9 4 (3.64%) Perl
10 3 (2.73%) Clojure
10 3 (2.73%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.73%) Ruby
10 3 (2.73%) Scala
10 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.82%) Fortran
11 2 (1.82%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 28 (25.45%) Degree
2 13 (11.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (10.91%) OSCP
4 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (7.27%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.45%) Master's Degree
7 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.64%) PhD
9 3 (2.73%) CCSAM
9 3 (2.73%) CEH
9 3 (2.73%) CREST Certified
9 3 (2.73%) GPEN
9 3 (2.73%) GXPN
9 3 (2.73%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.73%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.91%) NIST
2 1 (0.91%) QA
2 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.36%) Docker
2 6 (5.45%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.91%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (13.64%) Terraform
2 14 (12.73%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 9 (8.18%) Grafana
5 8 (7.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.91%) Argo
6 1 (0.91%) Kibana
6 1 (0.91%) logstash
6 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (9.09%) Palantir
2 7 (6.36%) Splunk
3 4 (3.64%) Databricks
4 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.91%) FXall
4 1 (0.91%) Google
4 1 (0.91%) Okta
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle
4 1 (0.91%) VMware