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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 291 386
Rank change year-on-year -1 +95 +155
Permanent jobs citing Rust 87 157 78
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.66% 0.92% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% 2.18% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 80 115 69
10th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £54,500
25th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -26.92%
75th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £145,000 £175,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year +5.26% +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 4,357 7,200 8,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.87% 42.39% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,011 4,759 7,191
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +58 18 £140,000 +64.71% 4
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 14 (16.09%) Azure
2 13 (14.94%) AWS
3 2 (2.30%) GitHub
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.15%) Sentry
4 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.15%) CockroachDB
2 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.15%) MySQL
2 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.15%) PostHog
2 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.15%) GitLab
2 1 (1.15%) JUnit
2 1 (1.15%) Mockito
2 1 (1.15%) Vite
General
1 12 (13.79%) Finance
2 5 (5.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.45%) Front Office
4 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.30%) Law
4 2 (2.30%) Military
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Automotive
5 1 (1.15%) Banking
5 1 (1.15%) Electronics
5 1 (1.15%) Marketing
5 1 (1.15%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (57.47%) Software Engineer
2 29 (33.33%) Senior
3 25 (28.74%) Senior Software Engineer
4 22 (25.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (25.29%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 22 (25.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) Lead
5 11 (12.64%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) Lead Software Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Rust Engineer
7 9 (10.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Rust Developer
11 2 (2.30%) Blockchain Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) C++ Software Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Python Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Python Software Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.59%) React
2 20 (22.99%) 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 10 (11.49%) FastAPI
5 9 (10.34%) Django
6 3 (3.45%) web3js
7 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.30%) DPDK
7 2 (2.30%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.30%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.15%) jQuery
8 1 (1.15%) Kafka
8 1 (1.15%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (1.15%) REST
8 1 (1.15%) Spring
8 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.89%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (25.29%) Cloud Native
2 22 (25.29%) Legacy Code
3 14 (16.09%) AI Agents
4 6 (6.90%) Blockchain
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%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Robotics
7 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.15%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
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 26 (29.89%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (64.37%) Software Engineering
2 34 (39.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (19.54%) AI
4 16 (18.39%) Microservices
4 16 (18.39%) Open Source
5 14 (16.09%) Generative AI
5 14 (16.09%) Network Virtualisation
6 13 (14.94%) OO
6 13 (14.94%) Workflow
7 12 (13.79%) Machine Learning
8 11 (12.64%) Event-Driven
9 10 (11.49%) Fintech
10 9 (10.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 9 (10.34%) Mobile First
10 9 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (9.20%) Customer Experience
11 8 (9.20%) Domain Models
11 8 (9.20%) Low Latency
11 8 (9.20%) Technology Strategy
12 4 (4.60%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (41.38%) TypeScript
2 34 (39.08%) C++
3 28 (32.18%) Python
4 26 (29.89%) Go
5 25 (28.74%) C
6 19 (21.84%) Java
7 13 (14.94%) C#
8 3 (3.45%) SQL
9 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.15%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.15%) PHP
10 1 (1.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 3 (3.45%) Degree
1 3 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 16 (18.39%) Docker
2 14 (16.09%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (16.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (50.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.15%) systemd
2 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.30%) Solarflare
3 1 (1.15%) Google
3 1 (1.15%) OpenAI