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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 311 347
Rank change year-on-year +20 +36 +214
Permanent jobs citing Rust 100 122 121
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 0.79% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.27% 1.93% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 92 106 111
10th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +3.85% -30.36%
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £135,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £145,000 £172,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year +5.26% +13.67% -20.40%

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 4,408 6,308 8,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.11% 40.66% 43.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,091 4,038 7,624
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,188 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +39 19 £140,000 +51.35% 19
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 (1.00%) Apache
1 1 (1.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.00%) AWS
2 13 (13.00%) Azure
3 8 (8.00%) GitHub
4 6 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (6.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 6 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (6.00%) Pulumi
4 6 (6.00%) Serverless
5 3 (3.00%) GCP
6 1 (1.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) DSL
2 1 (1.00%) 4G
2 1 (1.00%) 5G
2 1 (1.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (1.00%) RTP
2 1 (1.00%) SS7
2 1 (1.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.00%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 8 (8.00%) GitLab
2 7 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.00%) Vite
General
1 15 (15.00%) Finance
2 6 (6.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.00%) Games
4 2 (2.00%) Front Office
4 2 (2.00%) Military
5 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 30 (30.00%) Senior
3 22 (22.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Rust Engineer
5 16 (16.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (16.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 16 (16.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 14 (14.00%) Lead
7 13 (13.00%) Developer
7 13 (13.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 11 (11.00%) Rust Developer
9 9 (9.00%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (9.00%) Rust Software Engineer
10 8 (8.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 8 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) Architect
11 6 (6.00%) AWS Architect
11 6 (6.00%) AWS Security Architect
11 6 (6.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.00%) React
2 14 (14.00%) GraphQL
3 10 (10.00%) .NET
3 10 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 10 (10.00%) React Native
3 10 (10.00%) Redux
3 10 (10.00%) SignalR
4 9 (9.00%) Django
4 9 (9.00%) FastAPI
5 6 (6.00%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.00%) DPDK
6 2 (2.00%) web3js
7 1 (1.00%) CSS
7 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.00%) jQuery
7 1 (1.00%) Node.js
7 1 (1.00%) REST
7 1 (1.00%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (23.00%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (16.00%) Legacy Code
4 10 (10.00%) AI Agents
5 5 (5.00%) Blockchain
6 4 (4.00%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.00%) FPGA
7 2 (2.00%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.00%) Robotics
7 2 (2.00%) Web3
8 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.00%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (61.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 21 (21.00%) AI
4 19 (19.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (17.00%) Machine Learning
6 16 (16.00%) Low Latency
6 16 (16.00%) Open Source
7 14 (14.00%) Network Virtualisation
8 13 (13.00%) High-Frequency Trading
9 12 (12.00%) Microservices
9 12 (12.00%) OO
10 10 (10.00%) Event-Driven
10 10 (10.00%) Fintech
10 10 (10.00%) Generative AI
10 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (10.00%) Workflow
11 9 (9.00%) DevOps
12 8 (8.00%) Customer Experience
12 8 (8.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (8.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.00%) C++
2 37 (37.00%) Go
3 30 (30.00%) Python
4 27 (27.00%) TypeScript
5 23 (23.00%) Java
6 19 (19.00%) C
7 15 (15.00%) C#
8 4 (4.00%) SQL
9 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.00%) Bash
10 1 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (15.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.00%) OSCP
3 5 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.00%) PhD
4 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) Docker
1 14 (14.00%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (14.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (37.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.00%) Terraform
3 4 (4.00%) Grafana
3 4 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.00%) Solarflare