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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 266 349
Rank change year-on-year -20 +83 +170
Permanent jobs citing Rust 123 131 135
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 1.02% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.50% 2.44% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 104 120 124
10th Percentile - £85,000 £76,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £84,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +3.80% -5.95%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £126,875
90th Percentile £150,000 £123,750 £170,250
England median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -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 4,915 5,372 9,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.28% 41.90% 40.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,452 3,939 7,607
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,356 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £127,500 £125,000
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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +7 14 £130,000 +26.83% 22
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 (0.81%) Apache
1 1 (0.81%) Ethereum
1 1 (0.81%) Kinematics
1 1 (0.81%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.27%) AWS
2 15 (12.20%) Azure
3 14 (11.38%) GitHub
3 14 (11.38%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (10.57%) AWS Step Functions
4 13 (10.57%) Pulumi
4 13 (10.57%) Serverless
5 7 (5.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.57%) DSL
2 3 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (0.81%) 4G
3 1 (0.81%) 5G
3 1 (0.81%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.81%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
3 1 (0.81%) RTP
3 1 (0.81%) SS7
3 1 (0.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.69%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.38%) GitLab
3 2 (1.63%) Git
4 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.81%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 36 (29.27%) Finance
2 10 (8.13%) Games
3 9 (7.32%) Banking
3 9 (7.32%) Front Office
4 6 (4.88%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.63%) Military
8 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Advertising
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (48.78%) Software Engineer
2 34 (27.64%) Rust Engineer
3 31 (25.20%) Senior
4 26 (21.14%) Rust Software Engineer
5 23 (18.70%) Developer
6 21 (17.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 17 (13.82%) Rust Developer
8 16 (13.01%) Junior
9 15 (12.20%) C++ Software Engineer
10 13 (10.57%) Architect
10 13 (10.57%) AWS Architect
10 13 (10.57%) AWS Security Architect
10 13 (10.57%) Security Architect
11 11 (8.94%) Lead
12 9 (7.32%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (6.50%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 8 (6.50%) Junior Developer
13 8 (6.50%) Junior Software Developer
13 8 (6.50%) Junior Software Engineer
13 8 (6.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.57%) AWS CDK
2 11 (8.94%) React
3 8 (6.50%) GraphQL
4 7 (5.69%) Kafka
5 4 (3.25%) .NET
5 4 (3.25%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.25%) Django
5 4 (3.25%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.25%) React Native
5 4 (3.25%) Redux
5 4 (3.25%) SignalR
6 3 (2.44%) web3js
7 2 (1.63%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.63%) DPDK
7 2 (1.63%) eBPF
7 2 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.63%) Smart Contracts
8 1 (0.81%) RESTful
8 1 (0.81%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (24.39%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (19.51%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.94%) Data Structures
4 10 (8.13%) Algorithms
5 8 (6.50%) Legacy Code
5 8 (6.50%) Sports Betting
6 7 (5.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (4.88%) Blockchain
8 4 (3.25%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.44%) Robotics
9 3 (2.44%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.44%) Web3
10 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.63%) SIMD
11 1 (0.81%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.81%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.33%) Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Unix
3 3 (2.44%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.81%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (61.79%) Software Engineering
2 37 (30.08%) CI/CD
3 28 (22.76%) Low Latency
4 25 (20.33%) High-Frequency Trading
5 20 (16.26%) Computer Science
6 18 (14.63%) DevOps
6 18 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (13.82%) Multithreading
8 16 (13.01%) AI
8 16 (13.01%) Red Team
9 14 (11.38%) Machine Learning
9 14 (11.38%) Observability
10 13 (10.57%) Blue Team
10 13 (10.57%) DevSecOps
10 13 (10.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (10.57%) Incident Response
10 13 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (10.57%) Purple Team
10 13 (10.57%) SBOM
10 13 (10.57%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 56 (45.53%) C++
2 44 (35.77%) Go
3 36 (29.27%) Python
4 30 (24.39%) Java
5 21 (17.07%) C#
6 15 (12.20%) TypeScript
7 13 (10.57%) C
8 10 (8.13%) SQL
9 4 (3.25%) Bash
9 4 (3.25%) Perl
10 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.44%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.44%) Ruby
11 2 (1.63%) Erlang
11 2 (1.63%) OCaml
12 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (25.20%) Degree
2 16 (13.01%) OSCP
3 11 (8.94%) Master's Degree
4 8 (6.50%) PhD
5 4 (3.25%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.44%) CCSAM
6 3 (2.44%) CREST Certified
6 3 (2.44%) GPEN
6 3 (2.44%) GXPN
6 3 (2.44%) OSCE
6 3 (2.44%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.50%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (6.50%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (4.07%) Docker
3 1 (0.81%) Firmware
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 18 (14.63%) Terraform
3 7 (5.69%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (3.25%) Databricks
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.81%) FXall
2 1 (0.81%) Google
2 1 (0.81%) VMware