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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 612 653
Rank change year-on-year +316 +41 +103
Permanent jobs citing Rust 333 148 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.12% 0.66% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 95 137 90
10th Percentile £37,574 - £40,000
25th Percentile £44,625 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -16.36% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,050 £87,774 £100,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -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 10,670 22,474 24,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.24% 31.65% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,163 16,382 13,566
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.21%
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 13 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 13 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
North of England +192 188 £55,000 +10.00% 30
North West +128 180 £55,000 +10.00% 22
South East +163 68 £60,000 +11.63% 68
East of England +54 32 £54,000 -1.82% 25
South West +66 16 £58,000 -18.60% 24
Scotland +115 14 £58,000 -42.00% 6
Midlands +70 10 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Yorkshire +79 8 £42,500 -34.62% 5
East Midlands +31 8 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Wales - 5 £49,050 -
West Midlands - 2 £77,500 - 13
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 (6.61%) Apache
2 1 (0.30%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 231 (69.37%) Azure
2 213 (63.96%) AWS
3 172 (51.65%) GCP
4 36 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (0.60%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.30%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) Network Security
2 1 (0.30%) Broadband
2 1 (0.30%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.30%) GIS
5 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (6.61%) Eclipse
1 22 (6.61%) Eclipse RCP
2 7 (2.10%) Git
3 5 (1.50%) GitLab
4 4 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) CMake
5 1 (0.30%) PetaLinux
5 1 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 208 (62.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 36 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (6.91%) Social Skills
4 15 (4.50%) Finance
5 8 (2.40%) Law
6 5 (1.50%) Retail
7 3 (0.90%) Military
8 2 (0.60%) Automotive
8 2 (0.60%) Electronics
8 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.30%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.30%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.30%) Legal
9 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 257 (77.18%) Software Engineer
2 222 (66.67%) Senior
3 220 (66.07%) Senior Software Engineer
4 40 (12.01%) Developer
5 38 (11.41%) Software Developer
6 22 (6.61%) Junior
6 22 (6.61%) Junior Software Engineer
6 22 (6.61%) Lead
7 21 (6.31%) Software Team Leader
7 21 (6.31%) Team Leader
8 6 (1.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (1.80%) Gen AI Engineer
8 6 (1.80%) Gen AI Software Engineer
8 6 (1.80%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (1.80%) Principal Software Engineer
9 4 (1.20%) Java Engineer
9 4 (1.20%) Security Engineer
10 3 (0.90%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.90%) Python Engineer
11 2 (0.60%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (63.66%) Node.js
2 209 (62.76%) .NET
3 36 (10.81%) Pandas
4 24 (7.21%) HTML
5 22 (6.61%) CSS
5 22 (6.61%) JSP
5 22 (6.61%) Middleware
6 7 (2.10%) REST
7 5 (1.50%) Flutter
7 5 (1.50%) Spring
8 4 (1.20%) React
9 2 (0.60%) FIDO
9 2 (0.60%) JWT
9 2 (0.60%) OAuth
9 2 (0.60%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.60%) OpenID
9 2 (0.60%) SAML
10 1 (0.30%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.30%) Django
10 1 (0.30%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 209 (62.76%) Cyberattack
2 174 (52.25%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (51.65%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.20%) Smartphone
7 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.90%) FPGA
8 2 (0.60%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.60%) IoT
8 2 (0.60%) VHDL
9 1 (0.30%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.30%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.30%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 238 (71.47%) Linux
2 37 (11.11%) Android
3 23 (6.91%) Windows
4 3 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (89.19%) Software Engineering
2 270 (81.08%) Agile
3 197 (59.16%) Mentoring
4 193 (57.96%) Scrum
5 180 (54.05%) Microservices
5 180 (54.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 179 (53.75%) Machine Learning
7 174 (52.25%) Cloud Security
7 174 (52.25%) User Experience
8 172 (51.65%) Data Engineering
9 104 (31.23%) Mathematics
10 85 (25.53%) CI/CD
11 63 (18.92%) OO
12 62 (18.62%) Test Automation
13 61 (18.32%) Containerisation
14 57 (17.12%) Line Management
15 45 (13.51%) Computer Science
16 43 (12.91%) Design Patterns
17 42 (12.61%) Collaborative Working
17 42 (12.61%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 301 (90.39%) Java
2 297 (89.19%) Python
3 250 (75.08%) C++
4 220 (66.07%) Go
5 219 (65.77%) JavaScript
6 46 (13.81%) C#
7 27 (8.11%) SQL
8 24 (7.21%) Ada
9 19 (5.71%) C
10 8 (2.40%) Ruby
11 6 (1.80%) Clojure
11 6 (1.80%) Elixir
11 6 (1.80%) Perl
11 6 (1.80%) Scala
11 6 (1.80%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.60%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.60%) Solidity
13 1 (0.30%) Bash
13 1 (0.30%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 216 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 211 (63.36%) DV Cleared
3 172 (51.65%) AWS Certification
3 172 (51.65%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (51.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 75 (22.52%) Degree
5 22 (6.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.80%) PhD
7 4 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.80%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.60%) MISRA
3 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.30%) JTAG
System Software
1 45 (13.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (15.62%) Kubernetes
2 45 (13.51%) Terraform
3 40 (12.01%) Ansible
4 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.60%) ForgeRock
2 2 (0.60%) Ping Identity
3 1 (0.30%) Parasoft
3 1 (0.30%) Xilinx