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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 299 344
Rank change year-on-year +30 +45 +192
Permanent jobs citing Rust 116 122 127
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.54% 2.02% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 104 109 115
10th Percentile £90,000 £80,500 £76,250
25th Percentile £91,875 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £120,625 £115,000 £141,875
90th Percentile £150,000 £145,000 £172,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year +5.26% +13.67% -16.42%

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 4,568 6,039 9,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.90% 40.83% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,209 3,964 7,802
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 21 February 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 February 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 +46 18 £140,000 +36.59% 12
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 (0.86%) Apache
1 1 (0.86%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 31 (26.72%) AWS
2 14 (12.07%) Azure
3 12 (10.34%) GitHub
4 11 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (8.62%) AWS Step Functions
5 10 (8.62%) Pulumi
5 10 (8.62%) Serverless
6 4 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.62%) DSL
2 1 (0.86%) 4G
2 1 (0.86%) 5G
2 1 (0.86%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.86%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.86%) RTP
2 1 (0.86%) SS7
2 1 (0.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.48%) GitLab
3 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.86%) Git
3 1 (0.86%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.86%) Subversion
General
1 25 (21.55%) Finance
2 6 (5.17%) Front Office
2 6 (5.17%) Games
2 6 (5.17%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.45%) Banking
5 3 (2.59%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.59%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.72%) Military
6 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Advertising
7 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 33 (28.45%) Senior
3 24 (20.69%) Rust Engineer
3 24 (20.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (14.66%) Rust Software Engineer
5 15 (12.93%) Developer
6 14 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Lead
7 12 (10.34%) Lead Software Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Rust Developer
8 10 (8.62%) Architect
8 10 (8.62%) AWS Architect
8 10 (8.62%) AWS Security Architect
8 10 (8.62%) C++ Software Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) Security Architect
9 9 (7.76%) Junior
9 9 (7.76%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.07%) React
2 12 (10.34%) GraphQL
3 10 (8.62%) AWS CDK
4 9 (7.76%) .NET
4 9 (7.76%) .NET Core
4 9 (7.76%) React Native
4 9 (7.76%) Redux
4 9 (7.76%) SignalR
5 8 (6.90%) Django
5 8 (6.90%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.72%) Kafka
6 2 (1.72%) web3js
7 1 (0.86%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.86%) DPDK
7 1 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.86%) gRPC
7 1 (0.86%) Middleware
7 1 (0.86%) Node.js
7 1 (0.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (23.28%) Cloud Native
3 14 (12.07%) Legacy Code
4 9 (7.76%) AI Agents
5 7 (6.03%) Algorithms
6 6 (5.17%) Sports Betting
7 5 (4.31%) Blockchain
7 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
7 5 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.59%) Robotics
9 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.72%) FPGA
9 2 (1.72%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.72%) Web3
10 1 (0.86%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.86%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.55%) Linux
2 2 (1.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.86%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.86%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (59.48%) Software Engineering
2 28 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 21 (18.10%) AI
3 21 (18.10%) Low Latency
4 20 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (14.66%) High-Frequency Trading
5 17 (14.66%) Machine Learning
6 16 (13.79%) Open Source
7 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (12.07%) Network Virtualisation
8 14 (12.07%) OO
9 13 (11.21%) Computer Science
9 13 (11.21%) DevOps
10 11 (9.48%) Cloud Security
10 11 (9.48%) Microservices
10 11 (9.48%) Multithreading
11 10 (8.62%) Incident Response
11 10 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.62%) Red Team
11 10 (8.62%) SBOM
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.10%) C++
2 43 (37.07%) Go
3 36 (31.03%) Python
4 30 (25.86%) Java
5 23 (19.83%) TypeScript
6 19 (16.38%) C#
7 17 (14.66%) C
8 8 (6.90%) SQL
9 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.86%) Bash
10 1 (0.86%) Perl
10 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (20.69%) Degree
2 10 (8.62%) OSCP
3 9 (7.76%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.17%) PhD
5 5 (4.31%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.59%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 14 (12.07%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (12.07%) Virtual Servers
2 11 (9.48%) Docker
3 1 (0.86%) Firmware
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.86%) Xen
Systems Management
1 37 (31.90%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.93%) Terraform
3 5 (4.31%) Grafana
4 4 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (7.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.72%) Databricks
3 1 (0.86%) Bloomberg
3 1 (0.86%) FXall
3 1 (0.86%) Solarflare
3 1 (0.86%) VMware