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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 277 316
Rank change year-on-year -59 +39 +130
Permanent jobs citing Rust 102 112 165
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.43% 0.92% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.83% 2.25% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 85 83 111
10th Percentile £50,000 £85,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £148,000 £119,000 £140,000
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 5,583 4,981 7,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.36% 40.82% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 3,415 5,734
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £61,305
% change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%

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 17 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 17 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 +12 23 £100,000 -20.00% 2
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 (4.90%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.98%) Apache
2 1 (0.98%) Solana
Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.47%) AWS
2 12 (11.76%) Azure
3 6 (5.88%) GCP
4 4 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (3.92%) GitHub
4 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (3.92%) Pulumi
4 4 (3.92%) Serverless
5 1 (0.98%) Cloud Run
5 1 (0.98%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) DSL
2 3 (2.94%) Network Security
3 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.98%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 3 (2.94%) MySQL
1 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
1 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.98%) Redis
2 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.90%) GitLab
1 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.98%) Git
2 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (29.41%) Finance
2 11 (10.78%) Banking
3 7 (6.86%) Investment Banking
4 6 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Front Office
5 5 (4.90%) Games
6 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.94%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Law
7 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (38.24%) Software Engineer
2 28 (27.45%) Rust Engineer
3 26 (25.49%) Developer
4 20 (19.61%) Rust Developer
5 19 (18.63%) Rust Software Engineer
6 11 (10.78%) Junior
7 10 (9.80%) Lead
8 8 (7.84%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Senior
9 7 (6.86%) Architect
9 7 (6.86%) C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Junior Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) AWS Architect
11 4 (3.92%) AWS Security Architect
11 4 (3.92%) Junior Software Developer
11 4 (3.92%) Junior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Security Architect
11 4 (3.92%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.73%) React
2 8 (7.84%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.88%) Kafka
3 6 (5.88%) Smart Contracts
3 6 (5.88%) web3js
4 4 (3.92%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.94%) Middleware
5 3 (2.94%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.96%) DPDK
6 2 (1.96%) eBPF
6 2 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.96%) OpenMP
6 2 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.96%) REST
7 1 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.98%) MobX
7 1 (0.98%) Next.js
7 1 (0.98%) React Native
7 1 (0.98%) Redux
7 1 (0.98%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.76%) Blockchain
3 11 (10.78%) Algorithms
4 8 (7.84%) Data Structures
5 7 (6.86%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.88%) Web3
7 5 (4.90%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.92%) Hedge funds
9 3 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.94%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.94%) Robotics
9 3 (2.94%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.94%) Sports Betting
10 2 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.96%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.59%) Linux
2 7 (6.86%) Unix
3 3 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (72.55%) Software Engineering
2 26 (25.49%) Low Latency
3 21 (20.59%) Computer Science
4 20 (19.61%) High-Frequency Trading
5 18 (17.65%) DevOps
6 16 (15.69%) CI/CD
7 13 (12.75%) Agile
7 13 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (11.76%) Multithreading
9 11 (10.78%) AI
10 10 (9.80%) Decision-Making
10 10 (9.80%) Process Improvement
11 9 (8.82%) Electronic Trading
11 9 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (8.82%) Machine Learning
12 8 (7.84%) Market Making
13 7 (6.86%) Actionable Insight
13 7 (6.86%) Observability
13 7 (6.86%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 40 (39.22%) C++
2 35 (34.31%) Python
3 33 (32.35%) Go
4 30 (29.41%) Java
5 21 (20.59%) TypeScript
6 20 (19.61%) C#
7 13 (12.75%) Bash
7 13 (12.75%) C
8 7 (6.86%) VBA
9 5 (4.90%) Erlang
10 3 (2.94%) Clojure
10 3 (2.94%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.94%) Perl
10 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.94%) Ruby
10 3 (2.94%) Scala
10 3 (2.94%) SQL
11 2 (1.96%) Fortran
11 2 (1.96%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (22.55%) Degree
2 13 (12.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (9.80%) OSCP
3 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) CCSAM
6 3 (2.94%) CEH
6 3 (2.94%) CREST Certified
6 3 (2.94%) GPEN
6 3 (2.94%) GXPN
6 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.94%) OSCE
6 3 (2.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.98%) NIST
2 1 (0.98%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.86%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (12.75%) Kubernetes
1 13 (12.75%) Terraform
2 10 (9.80%) Prometheus
3 9 (8.82%) Grafana
4 8 (7.84%) Ansible
5 1 (0.98%) Argo
5 1 (0.98%) Kibana
5 1 (0.98%) logstash
5 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (9.80%) Palantir
2 7 (6.86%) Splunk
3 3 (2.94%) Databricks
3 3 (2.94%) Oracle
4 2 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (0.98%) Okta