Rust Job Trends in the South West

Rust
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Rust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 166 207
Rank change year-on-year -26 +41 +69
Permanent jobs citing Rust 8 3 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.10% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 0.29% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 53
10th Percentile - £37,800 -
25th Percentile £39,281 £40,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,792 £44,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% -41.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £44,500 £55,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £58,700 £58,750 £90,547
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -17.50%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 951 1,044 2,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.92% 35.62% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 642 649 2,350
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.34%
75th Percentile £67,481 £73,750 £66,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 the South West

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

Rust job vacancy trend in the South West

Rust
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in the South West over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Rust in the South West

Rust
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Wiltshire - 4 £40,792 - 1
Gloucestershire +11 3 £44,000 +1.73% 3
Dorset - 1 £80,000 -
Rust
England

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Electronics
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Graduate
3 2 (25.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Rust Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 4 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 4 (50.00%) Linear Algebra
2 4 (50.00%) Mathematical Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Physics
2 4 (50.00%) Signal Processing
2 4 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C++
2 7 (87.50%) C
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
1 1 (12.50%) logstash
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform