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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 296 376
Rank change year-on-year +1 +80 +138
Permanent jobs citing Rust 87 159 80
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 0.90% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 2.15% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 77 115 68
10th Percentile £90,500 £75,000 £54,250
25th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £127,188
90th Percentile £150,000 £145,000 £191,250
England median annual salary £105,000 £95,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year +10.53% +13.67% -22.61%

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 4,502 7,404 8,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.75% 42.01% 45.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,005 4,902 7,438
10th Percentile £46,059 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +59 16 £140,000 +64.71% 65
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 (1.15%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.54%) AWS
2 16 (18.39%) Azure
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (3.45%) Serverless
4 2 (2.30%) GitHub
5 1 (1.15%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.15%) Firewall
1 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.45%) CockroachDB
2 3 (3.45%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (3.45%) MySQL
2 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.45%) Redis
3 1 (1.15%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) JUnit
1 3 (3.45%) Mockito
2 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.15%) GitLab
3 1 (1.15%) Vite
General
1 16 (18.39%) Finance
2 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (6.90%) Law
4 3 (3.45%) Banking
4 3 (3.45%) Front Office
4 3 (3.45%) Marketing
4 3 (3.45%) Wholesale Banking
5 2 (2.30%) Military
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Automotive
6 1 (1.15%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 56 (64.37%) Software Engineer
2 32 (36.78%) Senior
3 29 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 24 (27.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (27.59%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 24 (27.59%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Lead
5 12 (13.79%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Lead Software Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (9.20%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Associate Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Rust Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Developer
11 2 (2.30%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (32.18%) React
2 22 (25.29%) GraphQL
3 13 (14.94%) .NET
3 13 (14.94%) .NET Core
3 13 (14.94%) React Native
3 13 (14.94%) Redux
3 13 (14.94%) SignalR
4 12 (13.79%) FastAPI
5 9 (10.34%) Django
6 4 (4.60%) PyTorch
6 4 (4.60%) TensorFlow
7 3 (3.45%) gRPC
7 3 (3.45%) JSON Web Signature
7 3 (3.45%) JWT
7 3 (3.45%) LangChain
7 3 (3.45%) LangGraph
7 3 (3.45%) OpenID
7 3 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (3.45%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.45%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (32.18%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 24 (27.59%) Legacy Code
3 16 (18.39%) AI Agents
4 6 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.45%) Blockchain
5 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.45%) Web3
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.30%) Robotics
7 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.15%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.15%) FPGA
7 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.48%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (71.26%) Software Engineering
2 36 (41.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (21.84%) AI
4 18 (20.69%) Microservices
5 16 (18.39%) Generative AI
5 16 (18.39%) Open Source
6 15 (17.24%) OO
7 14 (16.09%) Machine Learning
7 14 (16.09%) Network Virtualisation
8 13 (14.94%) Event-Driven
8 13 (14.94%) Workflow
9 11 (12.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 11 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (11.49%) Fintech
11 9 (10.34%) Mobile First
12 8 (9.20%) Customer Experience
12 8 (9.20%) Domain Models
12 8 (9.20%) Low Latency
12 8 (9.20%) Technology Strategy
13 6 (6.90%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.68%) TypeScript
2 35 (40.23%) C++
3 30 (34.48%) Go
3 30 (34.48%) Python
4 27 (31.03%) C
5 23 (26.44%) Java
6 13 (14.94%) C#
7 5 (5.75%) SQL
8 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.15%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.15%) PHP
9 1 (1.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
1 3 (3.45%) Degree
1 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 16 (18.39%) Docker
2 14 (16.09%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (16.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (59.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.45%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.15%) systemd
Vendors
1 13 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.45%) Google
2 3 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.30%) Solarflare