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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 249 348
Rank change year-on-year -46 +99 +162
Permanent jobs citing Rust 122 131 152
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.58% 1.09% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.30% 2.70% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 102 106 126
10th Percentile £71,625 £85,000 £76,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £143,750
90th Percentile £144,500 - £172,500
England median annual salary £97,500 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +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 5,304 4,857 9,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.37% 40.44% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,752 3,517 7,556
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £130,000
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 24 May 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 24 May 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 14 £100,000 -2.44% 25
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 (4.10%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (0.82%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.82%) Solana
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (31.97%) AWS
2 15 (12.30%) Azure
3 14 (11.48%) GitHub
3 14 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (10.66%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (10.66%) AWS Step Functions
4 13 (10.66%) Pulumi
4 13 (10.66%) Serverless
5 7 (5.74%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.66%) DSL
2 3 (2.46%) Network Security
3 1 (0.82%) 4G
3 1 (0.82%) 5G
3 1 (0.82%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.82%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.82%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
3 1 (0.82%) RTP
3 1 (0.82%) SS7
3 1 (0.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.74%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.82%) Redis
2 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.11%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.30%) GitLab
3 2 (1.64%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.64%) Git
3 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.82%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.82%) Subversion
General
1 40 (32.79%) Finance
2 13 (10.66%) Banking
3 10 (8.20%) Games
4 9 (7.38%) Front Office
4 9 (7.38%) Investment Banking
5 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.28%) Social Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Advertising
10 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (39.34%) Software Engineer
2 37 (30.33%) Rust Engineer
3 32 (26.23%) Developer
4 28 (22.95%) Rust Software Engineer
5 26 (21.31%) Rust Developer
5 26 (21.31%) Senior
6 19 (15.57%) Junior
7 17 (13.93%) C++ Software Engineer
8 14 (11.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (10.66%) Architect
9 13 (10.66%) AWS Architect
9 13 (10.66%) AWS Security Architect
9 13 (10.66%) Security Architect
10 11 (9.02%) Junior Developer
11 8 (6.56%) Junior Software Developer
11 8 (6.56%) Junior Software Engineer
11 8 (6.56%) Software Developer
12 7 (5.74%) Lead
12 7 (5.74%) Senior Developer
13 5 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.66%) AWS CDK
2 7 (5.74%) Kafka
3 6 (4.92%) Smart Contracts
3 6 (4.92%) web3js
4 4 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.46%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.64%) DPDK
6 2 (1.64%) eBPF
6 2 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.64%) React
6 2 (1.64%) REST
6 2 (1.64%) Vue
7 1 (0.82%) gRPC
7 1 (0.82%) Loki
7 1 (0.82%) MobX
7 1 (0.82%) Node.js
7 1 (0.82%) Redux
7 1 (0.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.03%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (13.11%) Cloud Native
3 15 (12.30%) Algorithms
3 15 (12.30%) Blockchain
4 11 (9.02%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.56%) Sports Betting
6 7 (5.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (4.92%) Web3
8 5 (4.10%) Hedge funds
9 3 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.46%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.64%) SIMD
11 1 (0.82%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.82%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.03%) Linux
2 6 (4.92%) Unix
3 3 (2.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.82%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.82%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (60.66%) Software Engineering
2 39 (31.97%) CI/CD
3 36 (29.51%) Low Latency
4 27 (22.13%) High-Frequency Trading
5 26 (21.31%) Computer Science
6 21 (17.21%) DevOps
6 21 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (15.57%) Multithreading
9 18 (14.75%) AI
10 16 (13.11%) Red Team
11 14 (11.48%) Machine Learning
11 14 (11.48%) Observability
12 13 (10.66%) Blue Team
12 13 (10.66%) Cryptography
12 13 (10.66%) DevSecOps
12 13 (10.66%) Incident Response
12 13 (10.66%) Purple Team
12 13 (10.66%) SBOM
12 13 (10.66%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 57 (46.72%) C++
2 43 (35.25%) Go
3 37 (30.33%) Python
4 23 (18.85%) Java
5 19 (15.57%) C#
6 10 (8.20%) C
7 8 (6.56%) SQL
8 7 (5.74%) Bash
8 7 (5.74%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.28%) Perl
10 3 (2.46%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.46%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.46%) Ruby
11 2 (1.64%) Erlang
11 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.64%) OCaml
11 2 (1.64%) VBA
12 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (30.33%) Degree
2 18 (14.75%) OSCP
3 11 (9.02%) Master's Degree
3 11 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.56%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.56%) PhD
5 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.28%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.46%) CCSAM
7 3 (2.46%) CREST Certified
7 3 (2.46%) GPEN
7 3 (2.46%) GXPN
7 3 (2.46%) OSCE
8 2 (1.64%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.46%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Firmware
2 1 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.82%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (18.03%) Terraform
2 17 (13.93%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.38%) Grafana
3 9 (7.38%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.82%) Argo
5 1 (0.82%) Kibana
5 1 (0.82%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (3.28%) Databricks
2 2 (1.64%) Splunk
3 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.82%) FXall
3 1 (0.82%) Google
3 1 (0.82%) Palantir
3 1 (0.82%) VMware