Rust Jobs in the South East

Rust
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 344 296
Rank change year-on-year +75 -48 +159
Permanent jobs citing Rust 57 9 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.064% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.31% 0.23% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22 7 43
10th Percentile - £40,948 £42,500
25th Percentile - £44,375 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -36.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile - £58,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £99,500
England median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -11.76%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,465 3,967 4,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.06% 28.08% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,610 2,913 3,089
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,394 £74,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,918 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.60% -6.28% +4.00%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Rust in the South East

Rust
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Rust in the South East.

Salary trend for Rust in the South East

Rust
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in the South East over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Rust in the South East

Rust
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Hampshire - 18 £60,000 - 1
Surrey +37 11 £75,000 - 1
Thames Valley +15 11 - - 13
Buckinghamshire - 10 - - 1
East Sussex - 9 - -
West Sussex - 4 £60,000 -
Kent - 3 - -
Oxfordshire +31 1 - - 7
Middlesex - 1 - -
Rust
England

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 39 (68.42%) Azure
2 18 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
2 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 18 (31.58%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) CMake
1 1 (1.75%) Git
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 18 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.75%) Finance
3 1 (1.75%) Law
3 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Lead
2 21 (36.84%) Software Team Leader
2 21 (36.84%) Team Leader
3 18 (31.58%) Developer
3 18 (31.58%) Software Developer
4 1 (1.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (1.75%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (1.75%) Gen AI Software Engineer
4 1 (1.75%) Senior
4 1 (1.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.58%) .NET
1 18 (31.58%) Node.js
1 18 (31.58%) Pandas
2 16 (28.07%) HTML
3 1 (1.75%) Bazel
3 1 (1.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.58%) Cyberattack
2 1 (1.75%) Acoustics
2 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.58%) Android
1 18 (31.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (68.42%) Agile
1 39 (68.42%) Containerisation
1 39 (68.42%) Line Management
2 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (36.84%) Scrum
2 21 (36.84%) Test Automation
3 19 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 19 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 18 (31.58%) Android Development
4 18 (31.58%) Collaborative Working
4 18 (31.58%) Design Patterns
4 18 (31.58%) Kanban
4 18 (31.58%) Mathematics
4 18 (31.58%) OO
4 18 (31.58%) OOP
4 18 (31.58%) OWASP
4 18 (31.58%) Secure Coding
4 18 (31.58%) Statistics
5 17 (29.82%) Computer Science
5 17 (29.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 55 (96.49%) Java
2 37 (64.91%) C#
3 35 (61.40%) C++
3 35 (61.40%) Python
4 34 (59.65%) JavaScript
5 18 (31.58%) Go
6 17 (29.82%) C
7 16 (28.07%) Dart
7 16 (28.07%) MATLAB
7 16 (28.07%) PHP
7 16 (28.07%) R
7 16 (28.07%) Ruby
7 16 (28.07%) SQL
7 16 (28.07%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.75%) Clojure
8 1 (1.75%) Elixir
8 1 (1.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (31.58%) DV Cleared
3 17 (29.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (29.82%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (31.58%) Ansible
2 18 (31.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (36.84%) Microsoft