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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 258 354
Rank change year-on-year -28 +96 +165
Permanent jobs citing Rust 122 143 142
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.63% 1.11% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.40% 2.67% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 102 119 124
10th Percentile £83,875 £85,000 £76,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
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 £144,063
90th Percentile £149,500 - £172,500
England median annual salary £95,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -8.57%

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 5,081 5,356 9,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.10% 41.45% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,567 3,934 7,573
10th Percentile £47,617 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,281 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +2.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £127,500
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 21 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 21 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 -8 12 £100,000 -2.44% 16
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 4 (3.28%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (0.82%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.82%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.15%) AWS
2 14 (11.48%) Azure
2 14 (11.48%) GitHub
2 14 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (10.66%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (10.66%) AWS Step Functions
3 13 (10.66%) Pulumi
3 13 (10.66%) Serverless
4 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 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.82%) Redis
3 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 38 (31.15%) Finance
2 12 (9.84%) Banking
3 10 (8.20%) Games
4 9 (7.38%) Front Office
5 8 (6.56%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.28%) 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 54 (44.26%) Software Engineer
2 37 (30.33%) Rust Engineer
3 29 (23.77%) Developer
4 28 (22.95%) Rust Software Engineer
4 28 (22.95%) Senior
5 23 (18.85%) Rust Developer
6 18 (14.75%) Junior
7 17 (13.93%) C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (13.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (10.66%) Architect
8 13 (10.66%) AWS Architect
8 13 (10.66%) AWS Security Architect
8 13 (10.66%) Security Architect
9 10 (8.20%) Junior Developer
10 9 (7.38%) Lead
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 Software Engineer
13 6 (4.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.66%) AWS CDK
2 7 (5.74%) Kafka
3 6 (4.92%) React
4 5 (4.10%) Smart Contracts
4 5 (4.10%) web3js
5 4 (3.28%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.64%) Django
6 2 (1.64%) DPDK
6 2 (1.64%) eBPF
6 2 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.64%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.64%) Vue
6 2 (1.64%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.82%) Loki
7 1 (0.82%) Node.js
7 1 (0.82%) REST
7 1 (0.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.31%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (16.39%) Cloud Native
3 13 (10.66%) Algorithms
4 12 (9.84%) Blockchain
5 11 (9.02%) Data Structures
6 8 (6.56%) Sports Betting
7 7 (5.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (4.10%) Web3
9 4 (3.28%) Hedge funds
9 4 (3.28%) Legacy Code
10 3 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.64%) SIMD
12 1 (0.82%) Derivative
12 1 (0.82%) Energy Derivatives
12 1 (0.82%) FPGA
12 1 (0.82%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.03%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) 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 34 (27.87%) Low Latency
4 27 (22.13%) High-Frequency Trading
5 23 (18.85%) Computer Science
6 19 (15.57%) DevOps
6 19 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (14.75%) Multithreading
7 18 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (13.11%) Red Team
9 15 (12.30%) AI
10 14 (11.48%) Observability
11 13 (10.66%) Blue Team
11 13 (10.66%) Cloud Security
11 13 (10.66%) Cryptography
11 13 (10.66%) DevSecOps
11 13 (10.66%) Incident Response
11 13 (10.66%) Machine Learning
11 13 (10.66%) Purple Team
11 13 (10.66%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 58 (47.54%) C++
2 45 (36.89%) Go
3 34 (27.87%) Python
4 25 (20.49%) Java
5 17 (13.93%) C#
6 12 (9.84%) C
7 9 (7.38%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.56%) SQL
9 5 (4.10%) Bash
10 4 (3.28%) Perl
11 3 (2.46%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.46%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.46%) Ruby
12 2 (1.64%) Erlang
12 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.64%) OCaml
13 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (27.87%) Degree
2 17 (13.93%) OSCP
3 11 (9.02%) Master's Degree
4 8 (6.56%) PhD
5 7 (5.74%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.46%) CCSAM
7 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
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%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.82%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.46%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Firmware
2 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.82%) Xen
Systems Management
1 23 (18.85%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.39%) Terraform
3 7 (5.74%) Grafana
3 7 (5.74%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.64%) Ansible
5 1 (0.82%) Argo
5 1 (0.82%) Kibana
5 1 (0.82%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (3.28%) Databricks
2 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.82%) FXall
2 1 (0.82%) Google
2 1 (0.82%) VMware