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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 599 731
Rank change year-on-year +199 +132 -170
Permanent jobs citing Rust 309 303 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 0.91% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 218 266 194
10th Percentile £40,147 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,000 £52,500 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £112,500
90th Percentile - £157,500 £200,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% +18.18%

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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +183 287 £90,000 +20.00% 346
UK excluding London +217 163 £58,000 -3.33% 209
London +105 142 £102,500 +3.80% 146
Work from Home +144 89 £80,000 +33.33% 240
South East +181 71 £60,000 - 45
East of England +72 32 £54,000 -1.82% 30
North of England +74 16 £55,000 +10.00% 53
South West +64 16 £58,000 -22.67% 15
Scotland +119 14 £58,000 -42.00% 13
Midlands +59 9 £57,500 -11.54% 54
Yorkshire +76 8 £42,500 -34.62% 22
East Midlands +46 8 £57,500 -11.54% 28
North West +17 8 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Wales - 5 £49,050 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 26

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 23 (7.44%) Apache
2 2 (0.65%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.32%) CMS
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) nginx
3 1 (0.32%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 78 (25.24%) Azure
2 75 (24.27%) AWS
3 51 (16.50%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (16.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (1.62%) SaaS
6 4 (1.29%) GCP
7 3 (0.97%) GitHub
8 2 (0.65%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.65%) PaaS
8 2 (0.65%) Serverless
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.32%) CloudAMQP
9 1 (0.32%) Figma
9 1 (0.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.65%) HTTP
1 2 (0.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.32%) Broadband
2 1 (0.32%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.86%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.97%) MySQL
5 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.65%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.65%) Redis
6 1 (0.32%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.32%) GIS
6 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (7.44%) Eclipse
1 23 (7.44%) Eclipse RCP
2 10 (3.24%) Git
3 7 (2.27%) GitLab
4 6 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.32%) CMake
5 1 (0.32%) JIRA
5 1 (0.32%) PetaLinux
5 1 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 54 (17.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 49 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (11.97%) Social Skills
4 31 (10.03%) Finance
5 9 (2.91%) Banking
6 8 (2.59%) Law
7 5 (1.62%) Retail
8 4 (1.29%) Military
9 2 (0.65%) Automotive
9 2 (0.65%) Front Office
9 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.32%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.32%) Electronics
10 1 (0.32%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.32%) Legal
10 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 192 (62.14%) Software Engineer
2 105 (33.98%) Senior
3 92 (29.77%) Senior Software Engineer
4 62 (20.06%) Developer
5 56 (18.12%) Software Developer
6 47 (15.21%) Lead
7 38 (12.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (12.30%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 38 (12.30%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 23 (7.44%) Junior
8 23 (7.44%) Junior Software Engineer
8 23 (7.44%) Lead Software Engineer
9 22 (7.12%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 21 (6.80%) Software Team Leader
10 21 (6.80%) Team Leader
11 16 (5.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 15 (4.85%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (4.21%) Principal Software Engineer
14 7 (2.27%) Java Engineer
15 6 (1.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (19.09%) Node.js
2 50 (16.18%) .NET
3 49 (15.86%) Pandas
4 47 (15.21%) React
5 43 (13.92%) GraphQL
6 25 (8.09%) HTML
7 23 (7.44%) CSS
7 23 (7.44%) JSP
7 23 (7.44%) Middleware
8 7 (2.27%) Flutter
8 7 (2.27%) REST
8 7 (2.27%) Spring
9 6 (1.94%) gRPC
10 3 (0.97%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.97%) Django
10 3 (0.97%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.97%) Kafka
10 3 (0.97%) Smart Contracts
10 3 (0.97%) web3js
10 3 (0.97%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 55 (17.80%) Distributed Systems
2 50 (16.18%) Cyberattack
3 48 (15.53%) Cloud Native
4 38 (12.30%) Legacy Code
5 10 (3.24%) Blockchain
5 10 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.94%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.62%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.29%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.29%) Smartphone
9 3 (0.97%) FPGA
9 3 (0.97%) IoT
9 3 (0.97%) Web3
10 2 (0.65%) Derivative
10 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 129 (41.75%) Linux
2 51 (16.50%) Android
3 27 (8.74%) Windows
4 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (81.88%) Software Engineering
2 134 (43.37%) Mathematics
3 128 (41.42%) Agile
4 119 (38.51%) CI/CD
5 77 (24.92%) Containerisation
5 77 (24.92%) OO
6 70 (22.65%) Line Management
7 68 (22.01%) Test Automation
8 66 (21.36%) Computer Science
9 58 (18.77%) Design Patterns
10 57 (18.45%) Collaborative Working
11 54 (17.48%) Secure Coding
12 52 (16.83%) OOP
13 51 (16.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 50 (16.18%) Android Development
15 49 (15.86%) DevSecOps
15 49 (15.86%) Kanban
15 49 (15.86%) OWASP
15 49 (15.86%) Statistics
16 48 (15.53%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 181 (58.58%) Python
2 170 (55.02%) Java
3 146 (47.25%) C++
4 117 (37.86%) Go
5 68 (22.01%) C
6 67 (21.68%) JavaScript
7 58 (18.77%) TypeScript
8 52 (16.83%) C#
9 32 (10.36%) SQL
10 25 (8.09%) Ada
11 11 (3.56%) Ruby
12 9 (2.91%) Perl
13 6 (1.94%) Clojure
13 6 (1.94%) Elixir
13 6 (1.94%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.94%) Scala
14 4 (1.29%) Solidity
15 2 (0.65%) Bash
15 2 (0.65%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.32%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 102 (33.01%) Degree
2 58 (18.77%) Security Cleared
3 52 (16.83%) DV Cleared
4 23 (7.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.94%) PhD
7 2 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.65%) MISRA
3 1 (0.32%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.32%) JTAG
3 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 66 (21.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Firmware
2 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 157 (50.81%) Kubernetes
2 64 (20.71%) Terraform
3 55 (17.80%) Ansible
4 2 (0.65%) Argo
4 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (9.06%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.97%) Alibaba
3 2 (0.65%) ForgeRock
3 2 (0.65%) Google
3 2 (0.65%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.32%) Parasoft
4 1 (0.32%) Xilinx