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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 297 350
Rank change year-on-year +27 +53 +178
Permanent jobs citing Rust 124 121 131
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.86% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.69% 2.09% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 111 108 121
10th Percentile - £83,875 £76,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -7.41%
75th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £129,250 £172,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £83,038
% change year-on-year +5.26% +14.41% -16.96%

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 4,618 5,781 8,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.51% 40.96% 41.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,246 3,898 7,752
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +34 19 £140,000 +36.59% 18
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%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 32 (25.81%) AWS
2 15 (12.10%) Azure
3 13 (10.48%) GitHub
3 13 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (9.68%) AWS Step Functions
4 12 (9.68%) Pulumi
4 12 (9.68%) Serverless
5 4 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.68%) DSL
2 1 (0.81%) 4G
2 1 (0.81%) 5G
2 1 (0.81%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.81%) RTP
2 1 (0.81%) SS7
2 1 (0.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.84%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (11.29%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.48%) GitLab
3 2 (1.61%) Git
4 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.81%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 29 (23.39%) Finance
2 7 (5.65%) Front Office
2 7 (5.65%) Games
3 6 (4.84%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.03%) Banking
5 4 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.61%) Military
7 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (51.61%) Software Engineer
2 34 (27.42%) Senior
3 30 (24.19%) Rust Engineer
4 24 (19.35%) Senior Software Engineer
5 23 (18.55%) Rust Software Engineer
6 17 (13.71%) Developer
7 14 (11.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (11.29%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 14 (11.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 14 (11.29%) Lead
8 12 (9.68%) Architect
8 12 (9.68%) AWS Architect
8 12 (9.68%) AWS Security Architect
8 12 (9.68%) C++ Software Engineer
8 12 (9.68%) Junior
8 12 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
8 12 (9.68%) Rust Developer
8 12 (9.68%) Security Architect
9 9 (7.26%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.10%) React
2 12 (9.68%) AWS CDK
2 12 (9.68%) GraphQL
3 9 (7.26%) .NET
3 9 (7.26%) .NET Core
3 9 (7.26%) React Native
3 9 (7.26%) Redux
3 9 (7.26%) SignalR
4 8 (6.45%) Django
4 8 (6.45%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.23%) Kafka
6 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.61%) web3js
7 1 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.81%) gRPC
7 1 (0.81%) Loki
7 1 (0.81%) Node.js
7 1 (0.81%) Vue
7 1 (0.81%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (24.19%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (23.39%) Cloud Native
3 14 (11.29%) Legacy Code
4 9 (7.26%) AI Agents
4 9 (7.26%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.65%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (4.84%) Sports Betting
7 5 (4.03%) Blockchain
8 3 (2.42%) Robotics
9 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.61%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.61%) Web3
10 1 (0.81%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (0.81%) Derivative
10 1 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.81%) Energy Derivatives
10 1 (0.81%) FPGA
10 1 (0.81%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.16%) Linux
2 3 (2.42%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.81%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (60.48%) Software Engineering
2 29 (23.39%) CI/CD
3 23 (18.55%) Low Latency
4 21 (16.94%) AI
4 21 (16.94%) High-Frequency Trading
5 20 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (13.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (13.71%) Machine Learning
7 16 (12.90%) Open Source
8 15 (12.10%) Computer Science
8 15 (12.10%) DevOps
8 15 (12.10%) OO
9 14 (11.29%) Network Virtualisation
10 13 (10.48%) Multithreading
11 12 (9.68%) Cryptography
11 12 (9.68%) DevSecOps
11 12 (9.68%) Incident Response
11 12 (9.68%) Red Team
11 12 (9.68%) SBOM
11 12 (9.68%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 52 (41.94%) C++
2 44 (35.48%) Go
3 39 (31.45%) Python
4 30 (24.19%) Java
5 24 (19.35%) TypeScript
6 20 (16.13%) C#
7 16 (12.90%) C
8 9 (7.26%) SQL
9 3 (2.42%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.81%) Bash
10 1 (0.81%) Perl
10 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (20.16%) Degree
2 12 (9.68%) OSCP
3 9 (7.26%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.84%) PhD
5 4 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.42%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 14 (11.29%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (11.29%) Virtual Servers
2 10 (8.06%) Docker
3 1 (0.81%) Firmware
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) Xen
Systems Management
1 39 (31.45%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.71%) Terraform
3 6 (4.84%) Grafana
4 5 (4.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.81%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.42%) Databricks
3 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.81%) FXall
3 1 (0.81%) Google
3 1 (0.81%) VMware