Rust
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Rust skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Rust over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 551 770 695
Rank change year-on-year +219 -75 -19
Permanent jobs citing Rust 186 320 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 0.56% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 127 177 139
10th Percentile £32,092 £57,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,397 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £97,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.28% +25.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £105,000 £140,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £138,500 £250,000 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% -

All Programming Languages
UK

Rust is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,640 57,467 67,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.55% 45.85% 52.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16,902 36,547 45,642
10th Percentile £39,820 £38,302 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,140 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Rust in the UK

Rust
Top 15 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 2 December 2023. 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 +247 172 £83,577 -22.61% 162
UK excluding London +271 96 £56,250 -10.00% 76
Work from Home +175 86 £70,000 -17.65% 79
London +171 79 £95,000 -29.63% 121
North of England +180 44 £45,000 +1.48% 12
North West +144 38 £32,092 -49.66% 7
South West +71 16 £65,000 +29.35% 10
South East +159 12 £70,000 +27.27% 33
East of England +126 10 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Midlands +130 7 £28,500 -45.71% 3
Yorkshire +98 6 £60,500 +36.43% 3
West Midlands +118 4 £28,500 -45.71% 2
Scotland +52 4 £100,000 - 9
Northern Ireland +38 3 £75,000 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £48,750 - 1

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 5 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.15%) SAS
3 3 (1.61%) Luigi
4 2 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.54%) OpenZeppelin
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) ProductWriter
2 1 (0.54%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 70 (37.63%) AWS
2 53 (28.49%) Azure
3 36 (19.35%) GCP
4 10 (5.38%) GitHub
5 9 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.61%) Fastly
7 3 (1.61%) Serverless
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.08%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.08%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.54%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) Network Security
2 6 (3.23%) HTTP
2 6 (3.23%) SNMP
3 4 (2.15%) DNS
3 4 (2.15%) Internet
4 3 (1.61%) Firewall
4 3 (1.61%) Multicast
5 2 (1.08%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.08%) Modbus
5 2 (1.08%) MQTT
5 2 (1.08%) RS-232
5 2 (1.08%) RS-422
5 2 (1.08%) RS-485
5 2 (1.08%) Unicast
6 1 (0.54%) Broadband
6 1 (0.54%) IPFS
6 1 (0.54%) SSH
6 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.38%) Big Data
1 10 (5.38%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.15%) MySQL
3 4 (2.15%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.08%) Flink
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.54%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.84%) Git
1 9 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.76%) GitLab
2 7 (3.76%) Maven
3 6 (3.23%) Artifactory
3 6 (3.23%) SonarQube
3 6 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (3.23%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.69%) JIRA
5 3 (1.61%) Selenium
6 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.54%) GCC
7 1 (0.54%) Hardhat
7 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
General
1 70 (37.63%) Finance
2 45 (24.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 43 (23.12%) Social Skills
4 24 (12.90%) Games
5 19 (10.22%) Banking
6 18 (9.68%) Marketing
7 9 (4.84%) Retail
8 7 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Automotive
9 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (49.46%) Software Engineer
2 57 (30.65%) Senior
3 34 (18.28%) Developer
4 29 (15.59%) Senior Software Engineer
5 28 (15.05%) Lead
6 18 (9.68%) Graphics Engineer
6 18 (9.68%) Graphics Software Engineer
7 16 (8.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (7.53%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 14 (7.53%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 14 (7.53%) Lead Software Engineer
8 14 (7.53%) Python Engineer
9 12 (6.45%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.38%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.84%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Graduate
12 7 (3.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (20.43%) .NET
2 33 (17.74%) Node.js
3 18 (9.68%) OpenGL
3 18 (9.68%) OpenGL ES
3 18 (9.68%) RESTful
3 18 (9.68%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 18 (9.68%) Unreal Engine
3 18 (9.68%) Vulkan
3 18 (9.68%) WebAssembly
3 18 (9.68%) WebGPU
4 13 (6.99%) React
5 8 (4.30%) GraphQL
6 7 (3.76%) Flutter
6 7 (3.76%) Hibernate
6 7 (3.76%) Quarkus
7 6 (3.23%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.69%) AWS CDK
9 4 (2.15%) Django
10 3 (1.61%) OAuth
10 3 (1.61%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.82%) Self-Motivation
2 33 (17.74%) Cloud Native
3 32 (17.20%) Cyberattack
3 32 (17.20%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (13.44%) Linux Command Line
5 18 (9.68%) Handset
5 18 (9.68%) Mali
5 18 (9.68%) Ray Tracing
5 18 (9.68%) SIMD
5 18 (9.68%) Smartphone
6 16 (8.60%) Hedge funds
7 14 (7.53%) Legacy Code
8 13 (6.99%) Algorithms
8 13 (6.99%) Blockchain
9 11 (5.91%) Equities
9 11 (5.91%) Public Cloud
10 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
11 4 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.15%) Grid Computing
11 4 (2.15%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 85 (45.70%) Linux
2 26 (13.98%) Android
3 8 (4.30%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.69%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.69%) Unix
5 3 (1.61%) CentOS
5 3 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.61%) Windows
6 1 (0.54%) Debian
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (72.04%) Software Engineering
2 72 (38.71%) Agile
3 52 (27.96%) User Experience
4 46 (24.73%) Computer Science
5 41 (22.04%) Scrum
6 34 (18.28%) Machine Learning
7 30 (16.13%) Full Stack Development
8 28 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (14.52%) DevOps
9 27 (14.52%) Microservices
10 24 (12.90%) Data Engineering
10 24 (12.90%) Mathematics
10 24 (12.90%) Mentoring
10 24 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (12.37%) Software Delivery
12 19 (10.22%) Test Automation
13 18 (9.68%) CI/CD
14 16 (8.60%) Containerisation
15 15 (8.06%) Software Testing
16 14 (7.53%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 118 (63.44%) Python
2 85 (45.70%) C++
3 74 (39.78%) Java
4 71 (38.17%) Go
5 55 (29.57%) C
6 48 (25.81%) JavaScript
7 36 (19.35%) C#
8 20 (10.75%) SQL
9 19 (10.22%) Ruby
10 18 (9.68%) TypeScript
11 15 (8.06%) Bash
12 14 (7.53%) Haskell
13 13 (6.99%) F#
14 11 (5.91%) Clojure
15 10 (5.38%) Kotlin
16 9 (4.84%) Ada
17 8 (4.30%) R
18 7 (3.76%) PowerShell
19 6 (3.23%) Groovy
19 6 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (26.88%) Degree
2 30 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 26 (13.98%) DV Cleared
4 25 (13.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (12.37%) AWS Certification
5 23 (12.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 23 (12.37%) AWS Certified Developer
5 23 (12.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.76%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.69%) PhD
8 4 (2.15%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.15%) Postgraduate
9 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.54%) GCFA
10 1 (0.54%) GCIH
10 1 (0.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.45%) QA
2 6 (3.23%) MISRA
3 5 (2.69%) GDPR
3 5 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (8.06%) Docker
2 4 (2.15%) Firmware
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (32.80%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.22%) Terraform
3 10 (5.38%) Ansible
4 7 (3.76%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.54%) Argo
6 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.54%) Grafana
6 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.54%) Mesos
6 1 (0.54%) Nagios
6 1 (0.54%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (2.15%) Parasoft
1 4 (2.15%) Sun
2 3 (1.61%) Intel
3 2 (1.08%) ANSYS
4 1 (0.54%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.54%) Databricks
4 1 (0.54%) Foundry
4 1 (0.54%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.54%) Vertica