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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 622 658
Rank change year-on-year +348 +36 +114
Permanent jobs citing Rust 368 143 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.61% 0.63% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 84 132 89
10th Percentile £37,574 - £40,371
25th Percentile £40,331 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -18.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,500 £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 10,207 22,714 23,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.25% 30.84% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,599 16,483 13,211
10th Percentile £32,500 £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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,296 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,963
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 28 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 28 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 +193 198 £58,000 +16.00% 27
North West +119 181 £66,250 +32.50% 19
South East +163 77 £60,000 +26.32% 16
East of England +56 31 £50,000 -9.09% 38
Midlands +76 27 £58,000 -10.77% 18
East Midlands +46 18 £49,050 -24.54% 5
Yorkshire +77 16 £42,500 -34.62% 6
South West +67 16 £58,000 -7.20% 26
Scotland +117 14 £58,000 -42.00% 15
West Midlands - 9 £77,500 - 13
Wales - 5 £49,050 - 2
North East - 1 - - 2
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 (5.98%) Apache
2 1 (0.27%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 231 (62.77%) Azure
2 212 (57.61%) AWS
3 172 (46.74%) GCP
4 36 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (0.54%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.27%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.78%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (5.98%) Eclipse
1 22 (5.98%) Eclipse RCP
2 7 (1.90%) Git
3 3 (0.82%) GitLab
3 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) CMake
4 1 (0.27%) PetaLinux
4 1 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 208 (56.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 36 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (5.98%) Social Skills
4 11 (2.99%) Finance
5 5 (1.36%) Law
6 4 (1.09%) Retail
7 2 (0.54%) Military
7 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.27%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.27%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.27%) Electronics
8 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 245 (66.58%) Software Engineer
2 217 (58.97%) Senior
3 215 (58.42%) Senior Software Engineer
4 40 (10.87%) Developer
5 38 (10.33%) Software Developer
6 22 (5.98%) Junior
6 22 (5.98%) Junior Software Engineer
6 22 (5.98%) Lead
7 21 (5.71%) Software Team Leader
7 21 (5.71%) Team Leader
8 4 (1.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (1.09%) Gen AI Engineer
8 4 (1.09%) Gen AI Software Engineer
8 4 (1.09%) Java Engineer
8 4 (1.09%) Security Engineer
9 3 (0.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.54%) Principal Engineer
10 2 (0.54%) Principal Software Engineer
10 2 (0.54%) Research Engineer
11 1 (0.27%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (57.34%) Node.js
2 209 (56.79%) .NET
3 72 (19.57%) HTML
4 36 (9.78%) Pandas
5 22 (5.98%) CSS
5 22 (5.98%) JSP
5 22 (5.98%) Middleware
6 5 (1.36%) Spring
7 4 (1.09%) REST
8 3 (0.82%) React
9 2 (0.54%) FIDO
9 2 (0.54%) Flutter
9 2 (0.54%) JWT
9 2 (0.54%) OAuth
9 2 (0.54%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.54%) OpenID
9 2 (0.54%) SAML
10 1 (0.27%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.27%) Django
10 1 (0.27%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 208 (56.52%) Cyberattack
2 174 (47.28%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (46.74%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.09%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.09%) Smartphone
6 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.54%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.54%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.54%) FPGA
8 1 (0.27%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.27%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.27%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.27%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.27%) Verilog
8 1 (0.27%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 233 (63.32%) Linux
2 37 (10.05%) Android
3 22 (5.98%) Windows
4 3 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (77.45%) Software Engineering
2 268 (72.83%) Agile
3 224 (60.87%) Machine Learning
4 195 (52.99%) Mentoring
5 193 (52.45%) Scrum
6 178 (48.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 176 (47.83%) Microservices
8 174 (47.28%) Cloud Security
8 174 (47.28%) User Experience
9 172 (46.74%) Data Engineering
10 104 (28.26%) Mathematics
11 88 (23.91%) Computer Science
12 82 (22.28%) CI/CD
13 62 (16.85%) OO
14 60 (16.30%) Containerisation
14 60 (16.30%) Test Automation
15 57 (15.49%) Artificial Intelligence
15 57 (15.49%) Line Management
16 48 (13.04%) Data Privacy
17 42 (11.41%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 348 (94.57%) Java
2 332 (90.22%) Python
3 289 (78.53%) C++
4 267 (72.55%) JavaScript
5 217 (58.97%) Go
6 93 (25.27%) C#
7 74 (20.11%) SQL
8 58 (15.76%) C
9 53 (14.40%) TypeScript
10 52 (14.13%) Ruby
11 48 (13.04%) Dart
11 48 (13.04%) MATLAB
11 48 (13.04%) PHP
11 48 (13.04%) R
12 23 (6.25%) Ada
13 4 (1.09%) Clojure
13 4 (1.09%) Elixir
13 4 (1.09%) Scala
14 2 (0.54%) Perl
14 2 (0.54%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 214 (58.15%) Security Cleared
2 210 (57.07%) DV Cleared
3 172 (46.74%) AWS Certification
3 172 (46.74%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (46.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 118 (32.07%) Degree
5 49 (13.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.63%) PhD
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.27%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.27%) MISRA
System Software
1 41 (11.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.14%) Terraform
3 39 (10.60%) Ansible
4 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
2 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
3 1 (0.27%) Xilinx