Rust Jobs in the UK excluding London

Rust
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 617 648
Rank change year-on-year +220 +31 +107
Permanent jobs citing Rust 163 149 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.67% 0.66% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 97 138 84
10th Percentile £37,574 - £40,111
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £86,550 £87,080 £100,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -1.56% -5.88%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,740 22,573 24,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.45% 32.11% 40.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,145 16,409 13,927
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Rust in the UK excluding London

Rust
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Rust in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Rust in the UK excluding London

Rust
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Rust in the UK excluding London

Rust
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +177 71 £60,000 - 85
East of England +71 32 £54,000 -1.82% 35
North of England +77 16 £55,000 +10.00% 55
South West +54 16 £58,000 -18.60% 18
Scotland +123 14 £58,000 -42.00% 16
Midlands +80 9 £57,500 -11.54% 57
Yorkshire +82 8 £42,500 -34.62% 22
East Midlands +47 8 £57,500 -11.54% 29
North West +18 8 £55,000 +10.00% 25
Wales - 5 £49,050 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 27
Rust
UK

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (13.50%) Apache
2 1 (0.61%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 59 (36.20%) Azure
2 41 (25.15%) AWS
3 36 (22.09%) Amazon EKS
3 36 (22.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.61%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.61%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (22.09%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.61%) GIS
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (13.50%) Eclipse
1 22 (13.50%) Eclipse RCP
2 7 (4.29%) Git
3 6 (3.68%) GitLab
4 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.61%) CMake
5 1 (0.61%) PetaLinux
5 1 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 36 (22.09%) Analytical Skills
1 36 (22.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (14.11%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.20%) Finance
4 8 (4.91%) Law
5 5 (3.07%) Retail
6 4 (2.45%) Military
7 2 (1.23%) Automotive
7 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.61%) Electronics
8 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.61%) Legal
8 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (53.99%) Software Engineer
2 52 (31.90%) Senior
3 50 (30.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 39 (23.93%) Developer
5 38 (23.31%) Software Developer
6 22 (13.50%) Junior
6 22 (13.50%) Junior Software Engineer
6 22 (13.50%) Lead
7 21 (12.88%) Software Team Leader
7 21 (12.88%) Team Leader
8 9 (5.52%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (5.52%) Principal Software Engineer
9 6 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.68%) Gen AI Engineer
9 6 (3.68%) Gen AI Software Engineer
10 4 (2.45%) Java Engineer
10 4 (2.45%) Python Engineer
10 4 (2.45%) Security Engineer
11 3 (1.84%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.84%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (24.54%) Node.js
2 37 (22.70%) .NET
3 36 (22.09%) Pandas
4 24 (14.72%) HTML
5 22 (13.50%) CSS
5 22 (13.50%) JSP
5 22 (13.50%) Middleware
6 7 (4.29%) Flutter
6 7 (4.29%) REST
7 5 (3.07%) Spring
8 3 (1.84%) React
9 2 (1.23%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.23%) FIDO
9 2 (1.23%) JWT
9 2 (1.23%) OAuth
9 2 (1.23%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.23%) OpenID
9 2 (1.23%) SAML
10 1 (0.61%) Django
10 1 (0.61%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.70%) Cyberattack
2 7 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.68%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.45%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.45%) Smartphone
5 3 (1.84%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (1.84%) FPGA
6 2 (1.23%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.23%) IoT
6 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.23%) VHDL
7 1 (0.61%) Acoustics
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.61%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 65 (39.88%) Linux
2 37 (22.70%) Android
3 23 (14.11%) Windows
4 2 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (77.91%) Software Engineering
2 104 (63.80%) Mathematics
3 98 (60.12%) Agile
4 86 (52.76%) CI/CD
5 63 (38.65%) OO
6 62 (38.04%) Test Automation
7 61 (37.42%) Containerisation
8 57 (34.97%) Line Management
9 45 (27.61%) Computer Science
10 44 (26.99%) Collaborative Working
11 43 (26.38%) Design Patterns
12 42 (25.77%) Software Testing
13 41 (25.15%) DevSecOps
14 38 (23.31%) Secure Coding
15 36 (22.09%) Android Development
15 36 (22.09%) Kanban
15 36 (22.09%) OOP
15 36 (22.09%) OWASP
15 36 (22.09%) Statistics
16 28 (17.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 130 (79.75%) Java
2 128 (78.53%) Python
3 80 (49.08%) C++
4 50 (30.67%) Go
5 46 (28.22%) C#
5 46 (28.22%) JavaScript
6 27 (16.56%) SQL
7 24 (14.72%) Ada
8 22 (13.50%) C
9 10 (6.13%) Ruby
10 8 (4.91%) Perl
11 6 (3.68%) Clojure
11 6 (3.68%) Elixir
11 6 (3.68%) Scala
12 5 (3.07%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.23%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.23%) Solidity
14 1 (0.61%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.61%) R
14 1 (0.61%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 75 (46.01%) Degree
2 44 (26.99%) Security Cleared
3 39 (23.93%) DV Cleared
4 22 (13.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.68%) PhD
6 4 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.23%) MISRA
3 1 (0.61%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.61%) JTAG
System Software
1 47 (28.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (33.74%) Kubernetes
2 48 (29.45%) Terraform
3 41 (25.15%) Ansible
4 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.23%) ForgeRock
2 2 (1.23%) Ping Identity
3 1 (0.61%) Parasoft
3 1 (0.61%) Xilinx