Rust Jobs in Scotland

Rust
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Rust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Rust over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 256 215
Rank change year-on-year +104 -41 +25
Permanent jobs citing Rust 14 22 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.46% 0.33% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 0.59% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 2
10th Percentile - £38,250 -
25th Percentile £37,574 £55,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £60,625 - -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -5.88%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 991 3,738 1,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.57% 55.74% 42.76%
Number of salaries quoted 726 1,130 1,078
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £80,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Rust in Scotland

Rust
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Rust in Scotland.

Salary trend for Rust in Scotland

Rust
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Rust in Scotland

Rust
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Moray - 4 £49,050 -
East Ayrshire - 3 £58,000 -
South Ayrshire - 3 £49,050 -
Fife - 3 £49,050 -
Glasgow - 1 £74,500 -
Rust
UK

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Eclipse
1 5 (35.71%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 9 (64.29%) Senior
2 9 (64.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Junior
3 5 (35.71%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) CSS
1 5 (35.71%) HTML
1 5 (35.71%) JSP
1 5 (35.71%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) FIDO
2 1 (7.14%) JWT
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
2 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (92.86%) Mathematics
3 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 9 (64.29%) DevSecOps
4 8 (57.14%) Agile
4 8 (57.14%) Computer Science
4 8 (57.14%) Software Testing
4 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
5 5 (35.71%) Analytics
5 5 (35.71%) Business Analytics
5 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (35.71%) ETL
5 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
5 5 (35.71%) OO
5 5 (35.71%) OOD
5 5 (35.71%) Physics
5 5 (35.71%) SDLC
5 5 (35.71%) UML
5 5 (35.71%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (92.86%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) Ada
3 5 (35.71%) C#
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
1 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) ForgeRock
1 1 (7.14%) Ping Identity