Rust Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Rust
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 272 589
Rank change year-on-year -208 +317 +22
Permanent jobs citing Rust 125 293 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.99% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 3.54% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 108 26 145
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,625 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £50,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £72,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.49% +20.42% -14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £84,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +15.15% +3.13%

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 10,418 8,269 23,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.59% 27.88% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,432 5,237 17,007
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,169
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.54% -1.51%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,375
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Rust relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Rust job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Rust
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 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
South East -20 42 £73,750 +9.26% 23
East of England -16 31 £100,000 +66.67% 27
North East -21 23 £100,000 - 19
North of England -179 23 £100,000 +34.23% 20
Midlands -30 14 £97,500 +25.81% 1
South West -47 14 £60,000 -14.29% 11
West Midlands -18 12 £98,750 +27.42% 1
East Midlands -35 2 £80,000 -
Scotland +16 1 £50,000 -24.53%
Rust
UK

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (4.00%) Apache
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Qpid
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.80%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 40 (32.00%) AWS
2 34 (27.20%) Azure
3 27 (21.60%) GCP
4 8 (6.40%) Serverless
5 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.60%) Network Security
2 11 (8.80%) MQTT
3 1 (0.80%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.60%) Big Data
3 2 (1.60%) Redis
3 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) Git
2 16 (12.80%) GitLab
3 10 (8.00%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.80%) PetaLinux
5 1 (0.80%) Poetry
5 1 (0.80%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (8.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.80%) Manufacturing
3 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.40%) Aerospace
4 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.40%) Law
4 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.80%) Electronics
5 1 (0.80%) Finance
5 1 (0.80%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 91 (72.80%) Software Engineer
2 42 (33.60%) Rust Engineer
2 42 (33.60%) Rust Software Engineer
3 31 (24.80%) Senior
4 28 (22.40%) Senior Software Engineer
5 27 (21.60%) C++ Software Engineer
6 19 (15.20%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 18 (14.40%) Developer
8 14 (11.20%) Rust Developer
9 13 (10.40%) Software Developer
10 10 (8.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Lead
10 10 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Principal Software Engineer
11 9 (7.20%) C++ Developer
11 9 (7.20%) C++ Software Developer
12 8 (6.40%) Lead Software Engineer
13 6 (4.80%) Principal Developer
13 6 (4.80%) Principal Software Developer
13 6 (4.80%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.40%) Kafka
2 6 (4.80%) React
3 5 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.00%) Vue
4 4 (3.20%) gRPC
4 4 (3.20%) Protocol Buffers
5 3 (2.40%) .NET
5 3 (2.40%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.40%) HTML
5 3 (2.40%) Keycloak
5 3 (2.40%) REST
6 1 (0.80%) Anaconda
6 1 (0.80%) NumPy
6 1 (0.80%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.80%) RESTful
6 1 (0.80%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.80%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (12.00%) Client/Server
3 9 (7.20%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.60%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.60%) Robotics
5 6 (4.80%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.20%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (2.40%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.40%) RISC-V
7 3 (2.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.60%) IoT
8 2 (1.60%) PKI
9 1 (0.80%) Blog
9 1 (0.80%) FPGA
9 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.80%) Verilog
9 1 (0.80%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 51 (40.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (81.60%) Software Engineering
2 38 (30.40%) Computer Science
3 32 (25.60%) CI/CD
4 24 (19.20%) AI
5 22 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (17.60%) Test Automation
6 21 (16.80%) Containerisation
7 20 (16.00%) DevSecOps
7 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (14.40%) Low Latency
9 17 (13.60%) Microservices
10 16 (12.80%) Agile
11 15 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (12.00%) Mathematics
11 15 (12.00%) Physics
11 15 (12.00%) Requirements Management
12 14 (11.20%) Code Quality
12 14 (11.20%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (11.20%) System Testing
13 13 (10.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 72 (57.60%) C++
2 48 (38.40%) Python
3 29 (23.20%) C
4 20 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 17 (13.60%) Java
6 16 (12.80%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.00%) Go
8 8 (6.40%) Scala
9 6 (4.80%) Bash
10 4 (3.20%) Clojure
10 4 (3.20%) Elixir
10 4 (3.20%) Erlang
10 4 (3.20%) Ruby
11 3 (2.40%) PHP
11 3 (2.40%) SQL
12 1 (0.80%) C#
12 1 (0.80%) Haskell
12 1 (0.80%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.80%) OCaml
12 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (39.20%) Degree
2 36 (28.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (25.60%) Security Cleared
4 18 (14.40%) SC Cleared
5 9 (7.20%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.40%) CEH
6 3 (2.40%) OSCP
7 1 (0.80%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) QA
2 1 (0.80%) ECSS
2 1 (0.80%) MISRA
System Software
1 21 (16.80%) Docker
2 14 (11.20%) Hyper-V
2 14 (11.20%) KVM
2 14 (11.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.20%) Firmware
4 3 (2.40%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 22 (17.60%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.00%) Terraform
3 18 (14.40%) Ansible
4 15 (12.00%) Grafana
5 10 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.60%) Puppet
7 5 (4.00%) Kibana
7 5 (4.00%) logstash
8 4 (3.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (11.20%) VMware
2 5 (4.00%) Tenable
3 4 (3.20%) NVIDIA
4 2 (1.60%) Palantir
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle
5 1 (0.80%) Xilinx