Rust
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 713 544
Rank change year-on-year +146 -169 +159
Permanent jobs citing Rust 290 174 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.22% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 0.54% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 221 148 167
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,875 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £126,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £200,000 £250,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Rust in the UK

Rust
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Rust in the UK

Rust
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Rust in the UK

Rust
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +140 277 £90,000 +20.00% 27
London +161 157 £95,000 -19.15% 12
UK excluding London +8 124 £67,500 -3.57% 22
Work from Home +77 92 £72,500 -9.38% 15
South West +51 63 £71,250 +122.02% 6
East of England +14 20 £72,500 +70.59% 5
Midlands -24 16 £82,500 -7.04% 3
Scotland -38 11 £100,000 +12.68% 1
South East -34 10 £50,000 -33.33% 4
West Midlands -12 8 £100,000 - 2
East Midlands -22 8 £65,000 +62.50% 1
North of England +4 4 £65,000 +62.50% 3
North West -11 3 - - 3
Yorkshire +56 1 £65,000 +62.50%

Rust
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.41%) nginx
2 6 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.03%) Confluence
3 3 (1.03%) OpenZeppelin
4 2 (0.69%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.69%) Solana
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 30 (10.34%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 87 (30.00%) AWS
2 49 (16.90%) GCP
3 20 (6.90%) Azure
4 6 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (2.07%) Amazon S3
4 6 (2.07%) SaaS
5 5 (1.72%) Cloudflare
6 4 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.38%) Serverless
7 3 (1.03%) Pulumi
8 2 (0.69%) GitHub
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.34%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.07%) Network Security
2 5 (1.72%) Firewall
3 3 (1.03%) IPFS
3 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.48%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.38%) Big Data
4 4 (1.38%) MySQL
5 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.03%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.03%) Parquet
5 3 (1.03%) Redis
5 3 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.34%) Flink
6 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (5.17%) Git
2 5 (1.72%) GitLab
2 5 (1.72%) Hardhat
3 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.38%) webpack
4 3 (1.03%) JIRA
4 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.69%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.34%) Maven
6 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 65 (22.41%) Finance
2 32 (11.03%) Banking
3 31 (10.69%) Legal
4 30 (10.34%) Financial Institution
4 30 (10.34%) Law
5 28 (9.66%) Social Skills
6 15 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.76%) Front Office
8 5 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.72%) Electronics
8 5 (1.72%) Games
9 4 (1.38%) Marketing
10 3 (1.03%) Automotive
11 2 (0.69%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Esports
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 187 (64.48%) Software Engineer
2 106 (36.55%) Senior
3 93 (32.07%) Senior Software Engineer
4 60 (20.69%) Developer
5 51 (17.59%) Embedded Engineer
6 50 (17.24%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 43 (14.83%) Lead
8 42 (14.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 40 (13.79%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 40 (13.79%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 25 (8.62%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (8.28%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 24 (8.28%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 20 (6.90%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 20 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.48%) Java Engineer
13 13 (4.48%) Java Software Engineer
13 13 (4.48%) Software Developer
14 11 (3.79%) Rust Developer
15 10 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (26.21%) React
2 33 (11.38%) Spring
3 24 (8.28%) GraphQL
4 12 (4.14%) Node.js
5 9 (3.10%) AngularJS
5 9 (3.10%) Smart Contracts
5 9 (3.10%) web3js
6 8 (2.76%) Kafka
7 6 (2.07%) WebSockets
8 5 (1.72%) CSS
8 5 (1.72%) HTML
8 5 (1.72%) Laravel
9 4 (1.38%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.38%) Next.js
9 4 (1.38%) PyTorch
9 4 (1.38%) Symfony
9 4 (1.38%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.03%) Bazel
10 3 (1.03%) ERC20
10 3 (1.03%) Truffle
Miscellaneous
1 72 (24.83%) Distributed Systems
2 49 (16.90%) Cloud Native
3 47 (16.21%) Blockchain
4 40 (13.79%) Legacy Code
5 33 (11.38%) NFT
6 20 (6.90%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.79%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.10%) Web3
10 6 (2.07%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.72%) IoT
12 4 (1.38%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.03%) Bitcoin
13 3 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.03%) Mixed Reality
13 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (46.21%) Linux
2 47 (16.21%) Embedded Linux
3 12 (4.14%) Unix
4 6 (2.07%) Windows
5 4 (1.38%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (1.38%) Android
6 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (77.59%) Software Engineering
2 76 (26.21%) Computer Science
3 62 (21.38%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (17.93%) Agile
5 43 (14.83%) Low Latency
6 36 (12.41%) Fintech
7 34 (11.72%) DeFi
8 32 (11.03%) Cryptocurrency
8 32 (11.03%) Full Stack Development
9 31 (10.69%) Asset Management
10 30 (10.34%) Business Development
10 30 (10.34%) E-Commerce
10 30 (10.34%) Performance Testing
11 27 (9.31%) DevOps
12 23 (7.93%) Open Source
13 20 (6.90%) CI/CD
13 20 (6.90%) Mentoring
13 20 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (6.55%) Machine Learning
15 18 (6.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 127 (43.79%) C
2 118 (40.69%) Python
3 117 (40.34%) C++
4 88 (30.34%) Go
5 86 (29.66%) Java
6 60 (20.69%) TypeScript
7 57 (19.66%) JavaScript
8 50 (17.24%) Bash
9 46 (15.86%) Embedded C
10 38 (13.10%) Solidity
11 25 (8.62%) C#
12 24 (8.28%) SQL
13 12 (4.14%) Haskell
14 11 (3.79%) PHP
15 5 (1.72%) Kotlin
16 3 (1.03%) Assembly Language
16 3 (1.03%) Cython
16 3 (1.03%) Groovy
16 3 (1.03%) R
16 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.45%) Degree
3 13 (4.48%) Master's Degree
4 12 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.72%) PhD
7 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.07%) Accessibility
1 6 (2.07%) QA
2 4 (1.38%) MISRA
3 3 (1.03%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.34%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.34%) WAI
System Software
1 54 (18.62%) Docker
2 7 (2.41%) Firmware
3 6 (2.07%) Ceph
3 6 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 124 (42.76%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.21%) Terraform
3 10 (3.45%) Ansible
4 6 (2.07%) Knative
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Puppet
5 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (2.76%) Google
2 5 (1.72%) Foundry
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.38%) Oracle
4 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.03%) Coverity
4 3 (1.03%) Intel
5 2 (0.69%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.34%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.34%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.34%) QNX
6 1 (0.34%) Sun