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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 262 340
Rank change year-on-year -28 +78 +140
Permanent jobs citing Rust 126 133 169
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.57% 1.07% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.35% 2.57% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 105 105 125
10th Percentile £61,000 £85,000 £76,750
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% -13.98%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £156,750 £118,000 £169,500
England median annual salary £96,250 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.75% +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 5,367 5,179 9,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.31% 41.59% 40.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,797 3,610 7,499
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,925 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
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 6 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 6 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 +4 22 £100,000 -2.44% 31
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 (3.97%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.79%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.95%) AWS
2 13 (10.32%) Azure
3 12 (9.52%) GitHub
3 12 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (8.73%) AWS Step Functions
4 11 (8.73%) Pulumi
4 11 (8.73%) Serverless
5 5 (3.97%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.73%) DSL
2 3 (2.38%) Network Security
3 1 (0.79%) 4G
3 1 (0.79%) 5G
3 1 (0.79%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.79%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
3 1 (0.79%) RTP
3 1 (0.79%) SS7
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.79%) Redis
2 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.32%) GitLab
3 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.59%) Git
3 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.79%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.79%) Subversion
General
1 41 (32.54%) Finance
2 13 (10.32%) Banking
3 10 (7.94%) Games
4 9 (7.14%) Front Office
4 9 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.38%) Social Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (42.06%) Software Engineer
2 36 (28.57%) Rust Engineer
3 29 (23.02%) Developer
4 27 (21.43%) Rust Software Engineer
5 24 (19.05%) Rust Developer
6 19 (15.08%) Senior
7 17 (13.49%) Junior
8 13 (10.32%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (8.73%) Architect
9 11 (8.73%) AWS Architect
9 11 (8.73%) AWS Security Architect
9 11 (8.73%) Security Architect
9 11 (8.73%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (7.14%) Junior Developer
10 9 (7.14%) Lead
11 8 (6.35%) Junior Software Engineer
12 7 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
13 6 (4.76%) Java Engineer
13 6 (4.76%) Junior Software Developer
13 6 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.73%) AWS CDK
1 11 (8.73%) React
2 8 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.56%) Kafka
4 6 (4.76%) Smart Contracts
4 6 (4.76%) web3js
5 3 (2.38%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.59%) DPDK
6 2 (1.59%) eBPF
6 2 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.59%) REST
6 2 (1.59%) Vue
7 1 (0.79%) Loki
7 1 (0.79%) Middleware
7 1 (0.79%) MobX
7 1 (0.79%) Redux
7 1 (0.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.46%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (11.90%) Algorithms
3 13 (10.32%) Cloud Native
4 12 (9.52%) Blockchain
5 11 (8.73%) Data Structures
6 8 (6.35%) Sports Betting
7 7 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (4.76%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.76%) Web3
9 4 (3.17%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (3.17%) Hedge funds
9 4 (3.17%) Robotics
10 3 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.38%) Operational Technology
10 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.59%) SIMD
12 1 (0.79%) ARM Cortex
12 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.63%) Linux
2 6 (4.76%) Unix
3 3 (2.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.79%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (68.25%) Software Engineering
2 36 (28.57%) Low Latency
3 35 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 30 (23.81%) Computer Science
5 27 (21.43%) High-Frequency Trading
6 23 (18.25%) DevOps
7 21 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (15.08%) Multithreading
9 17 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (11.11%) Agile
10 14 (11.11%) AI
10 14 (11.11%) Red Team
11 13 (10.32%) Observability
12 12 (9.52%) Electronic Trading
12 12 (9.52%) Market Making
13 11 (8.73%) Blue Team
13 11 (8.73%) Cryptography
13 11 (8.73%) DevSecOps
13 11 (8.73%) Machine Learning
13 11 (8.73%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 59 (46.83%) C++
2 45 (35.71%) Go
3 40 (31.75%) Python
4 36 (28.57%) Java
5 23 (18.25%) C#
6 18 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 13 (10.32%) C
8 11 (8.73%) Bash
9 7 (5.56%) SQL
10 6 (4.76%) VBA
11 5 (3.97%) Erlang
12 4 (3.17%) Perl
13 3 (2.38%) Clojure
13 3 (2.38%) Objective-C
13 3 (2.38%) PowerShell
13 3 (2.38%) Ruby
13 3 (2.38%) Scala
14 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
14 2 (1.59%) OCaml
15 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (29.37%) Degree
2 17 (13.49%) OSCP
3 12 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 11 (8.73%) Master's Degree
5 10 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (7.14%) DV Cleared
7 8 (6.35%) PhD
8 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.38%) CCSAM
9 3 (2.38%) CEH
9 3 (2.38%) CREST Certified
9 3 (2.38%) GPEN
9 3 (2.38%) GXPN
9 3 (2.38%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.56%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.79%) Firmware
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (17.46%) Terraform
2 19 (15.08%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.73%) Grafana
3 11 (8.73%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.79%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (7.94%) Palantir
2 6 (4.76%) Splunk
3 4 (3.17%) Databricks
4 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.79%) FXall
4 1 (0.79%) Google
4 1 (0.79%) VMware