Rust Job Trends in the North West

Rust
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Rust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 199 152
Rank change year-on-year +22 -47 +152
Permanent jobs citing Rust 6 10 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.098% 0.19% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.71% 0.67% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 8
10th Percentile - £48,750 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,000 £32,092
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +77.61% -58.59%
75th Percentile £85,000 £60,500 £36,569
90th Percentile - £72,375 £50,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 843 1,500 1,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.71% 28.72% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 704 856 1,169
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Rust relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Rust job vacancy trend in the North West

Rust
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in the North West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Rust in the North West

Rust
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester +26 6 £75,000 +36.36% 9
Rust
England

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Rust Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) B2B
1 3 (50.00%) B2C
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) Java