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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 313 353
Rank change year-on-year +33 +40 +188
Permanent jobs citing Rust 112 117 123
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.74% 0.78% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.51% 1.91% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 103 104 111
10th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £76,250
25th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £121,250 £115,000 £144,375
90th Percentile £150,000 £145,000 £172,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -21.43%

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 4,468 6,112 9,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.51% 40.51% 42.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,155 3,932 7,850
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,483 £49,898
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +0.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +40 19 £140,000 +38.27% 18
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 (0.89%) Apache
1 1 (0.89%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.00%) AWS
2 15 (13.39%) Azure
3 11 (9.82%) GitHub
4 9 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
5 8 (7.14%) Pulumi
5 8 (7.14%) Serverless
6 4 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) DSL
2 1 (0.89%) 4G
2 1 (0.89%) 5G
2 1 (0.89%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.89%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.89%) RTP
2 1 (0.89%) SS7
2 1 (0.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.04%) GitLab
3 2 (1.79%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.89%) Git
4 1 (0.89%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.89%) Subversion
General
1 21 (18.75%) Finance
2 6 (5.36%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.57%) Front Office
4 4 (3.57%) Games
5 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.79%) Banking
6 2 (1.79%) Military
6 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Advertising
7 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (50.89%) Software Engineer
2 33 (29.46%) Senior
3 24 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 22 (19.64%) Rust Engineer
5 16 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (14.29%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 16 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 15 (13.39%) Lead
7 14 (12.50%) Rust Software Engineer
8 13 (11.61%) Lead Software Engineer
9 12 (10.71%) Developer
10 11 (9.82%) Rust Developer
11 9 (8.04%) C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (8.04%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (7.14%) Architect
12 8 (7.14%) AWS Architect
12 8 (7.14%) AWS Security Architect
12 8 (7.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 8 (7.14%) Security Architect
12 8 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.29%) React
2 14 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 10 (8.93%) .NET
3 10 (8.93%) .NET Core
3 10 (8.93%) React Native
3 10 (8.93%) Redux
3 10 (8.93%) SignalR
4 8 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 8 (7.14%) Django
4 8 (7.14%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.79%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.79%) DPDK
5 2 (1.79%) web3js
6 1 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.89%) gRPC
6 1 (0.89%) Middleware
6 1 (0.89%) Node.js
6 1 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.11%) Cloud Native
1 27 (24.11%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (14.29%) Legacy Code
3 10 (8.93%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.36%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.46%) Blockchain
6 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.57%) Sports Betting
7 3 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.68%) Robotics
8 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.79%) FPGA
8 2 (1.79%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.79%) Web3
9 1 (0.89%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.89%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (0.89%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (60.71%) Software Engineering
2 25 (22.32%) CI/CD
3 23 (20.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (19.64%) AI
5 19 (16.96%) Low Latency
6 17 (15.18%) Machine Learning
7 16 (14.29%) Open Source
8 14 (12.50%) High-Frequency Trading
8 14 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
9 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (11.61%) Microservices
10 12 (10.71%) OO
11 10 (8.93%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.93%) Event-Driven
11 10 (8.93%) Fintech
11 10 (8.93%) Generative AI
11 10 (8.93%) Workflow
12 9 (8.04%) Cloud Security
12 9 (8.04%) DevOps
12 9 (8.04%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.96%) C++
2 41 (36.61%) Go
3 33 (29.46%) Python
4 26 (23.21%) Java
4 26 (23.21%) TypeScript
5 20 (17.86%) C
6 16 (14.29%) C#
7 6 (5.36%) SQL
8 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.89%) Bash
9 1 (0.89%) Perl
9 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (17.86%) Degree
2 8 (7.14%) OSCP
3 7 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.46%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.57%) PhD
6 3 (2.68%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 14 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
2 13 (11.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.89%) Firmware
3 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.89%) Xen
Systems Management
1 39 (34.82%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.61%) Terraform
3 5 (4.46%) Grafana
4 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.79%) Solarflare
3 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.89%) FXall
3 1 (0.89%) VMware