Rust Engineer Jobs

Rust Engineer
UK

The median Rust Engineer salary in the UK is £102,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 706 870 948
Rank change year-on-year +164 +78 +256
Permanent jobs requiring a Rust Engineer 5 24 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.024% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.025% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 4
10th Percentile £78,750 - £63,750
25th Percentile £84,375 £45,000 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% +20.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £111,250 £157,500 £93,125
90th Percentile - £163,500 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - £50,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -33.33% -25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,357 94,770 90,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.42% 94.70% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 25,605 67,694 56,964
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,622 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,438
% change year-on-year +3.29% -6.43% +6.88%

Rust Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Rust Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Rust Engineer in the UK

Rust Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Rust Engineer.

Salary trend for Rust Engineer in the UK

Rust Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust Engineer over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Rust Engineer in the UK

Rust Engineer
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +154 5 £102,500 +7.89% 261
London +100 5 £102,500 -30.51% 41
Work from Home +123 1 £80,000 -34.69% 198

Rust Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Rust Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Rust Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 5 (100.00%) Rust
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (40.00%) Physics
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Logistics
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Node.js
3 2 (40.00%) Fintech
3 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Blockchain
3 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (40.00%) web3js
3 2 (40.00%) Argo
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (40.00%) Web3
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DeFi
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL

Rust Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (40.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) DeFi
2 2 (40.00%) Fintech
2 2 (40.00%) Logistics
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Physics
2 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Rust
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform