Rust Job Trends

Rust
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Rust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 459 516
Rank change year-on-year -48 +57 +264
Permanent jobs citing Rust 165 226 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.46% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 1.33% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 145 152 228
10th Percentile £55,500 £65,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £84,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -8.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £122,500 £163,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +26.09% -11.54%

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 12,735 16,949 27,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.76% 34.45% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,078 10,058 22,747
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,869 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Rust relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Rust job vacancy trend in the UK

Rust
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Rust in the UK

Rust
Top 13 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 18 February 2026. 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 -12 154 £100,000 +5.26% 72
London +20 112 £100,000 -2.44% 36
Work from Home +18 46 £100,000 -4.76% 35
UK excluding London -50 45 £65,000 -10.34% 42
South East -1 20 £50,000 -52.38% 12
South West - 7 £40,792 - 4
Midlands +14 6 £80,000 +39.13% 8
North West +4 6 £75,000 +31.58% 2
North of England -21 6 £75,000 +31.58% 6
East Midlands -14 5 £80,000 +39.13% 1
Wales -10 4 - -
East of England -12 2 £85,000 +17.24% 10
West Midlands - 1 £100,000 - 7

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.24%) Ethereum
2 3 (1.82%) Apache
3 2 (1.21%) Apache Qpid
4 1 (0.61%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.12%) AWS
2 32 (19.39%) Azure
3 15 (9.09%) GCP
4 12 (7.27%) GitHub
5 11 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (6.06%) Serverless
7 9 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 9 (5.45%) Pulumi
8 4 (2.42%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.42%) SurveyMonkey
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.45%) DSL
2 5 (3.03%) Network Security
3 4 (2.42%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.42%) Firewall
3 4 (2.42%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.42%) Modbus
3 4 (2.42%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.42%) VLAN
3 4 (2.42%) Wireshark
3 4 (2.42%) ZigBee
4 3 (1.82%) MQTT
5 1 (0.61%) 4G
5 1 (0.61%) 5G
5 1 (0.61%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.61%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.61%) RTP
5 1 (0.61%) SS7
5 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.42%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.21%) Redis
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Arrow
4 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.61%) Parquet
4 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (9.09%) GitLab
2 12 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.03%) Git
4 4 (2.42%) Burp Suite
4 4 (2.42%) Metasploit
5 3 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.61%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.61%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 30 (18.18%) Finance
2 12 (7.27%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.06%) Banking
4 7 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.03%) Electronics
5 5 (3.03%) Front Office
5 5 (3.03%) Games
5 5 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.42%) Law
7 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.21%) Military
8 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.61%) Advertising
9 1 (0.61%) Aviation
9 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (47.88%) Software Engineer
2 39 (23.64%) Senior
3 36 (21.82%) Rust Engineer
4 26 (15.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 20 (12.12%) Developer
6 19 (11.52%) Rust Software Engineer
7 18 (10.91%) Rust Developer
8 14 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Lead
9 12 (7.27%) C++ Software Engineer
9 12 (7.27%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Architect
10 9 (5.45%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.45%) AWS Security Architect
10 9 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Security Architect
11 8 (4.85%) Junior
12 7 (4.24%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.09%) React
2 12 (7.27%) .NET
2 12 (7.27%) GraphQL
3 9 (5.45%) .NET Core
3 9 (5.45%) AWS CDK
3 9 (5.45%) React Native
3 9 (5.45%) Redux
3 9 (5.45%) SignalR
3 9 (5.45%) web3js
4 8 (4.85%) Django
4 8 (4.85%) FastAPI
5 7 (4.24%) Smart Contracts
6 6 (3.64%) Kafka
7 3 (1.82%) RESTful
8 2 (1.21%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.21%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.21%) gRPC
8 2 (1.21%) Vue
9 1 (0.61%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.61%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (15.76%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.48%) Legacy Code
4 12 (7.27%) Blockchain
5 11 (6.67%) Algorithms
6 9 (5.45%) AI Agents
6 9 (5.45%) Hedge funds
6 9 (5.45%) Web3
7 7 (4.24%) Client/Server
8 5 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (3.03%) Sports Betting
9 4 (2.42%) CAN bus
9 4 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (2.42%) IoT
9 4 (2.42%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.42%) SCADA
10 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.82%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.64%) Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Android
2 4 (2.42%) Kali Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (61.21%) Software Engineering
2 37 (22.42%) CI/CD
3 34 (20.61%) AI
4 31 (18.79%) Computer Science
5 28 (16.97%) Low Latency
6 24 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (13.94%) Machine Learning
8 22 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (10.30%) High-Frequency Trading
10 16 (9.70%) Open Source
10 16 (9.70%) Workflow
11 15 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (9.09%) Microservices
12 14 (8.48%) Cloud Security
12 14 (8.48%) Network Virtualisation
12 14 (8.48%) Test Automation
13 13 (7.88%) Cryptography
13 13 (7.88%) DevOps
13 13 (7.88%) OO
Programming Languages
1 68 (41.21%) C++
2 61 (36.97%) Python
3 49 (29.70%) Go
4 36 (21.82%) Java
5 33 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 30 (18.18%) C
7 20 (12.12%) C#
8 11 (6.67%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.85%) SQL
10 4 (2.42%) R
11 2 (1.21%) Bash
11 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.61%) Dart
12 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (29.70%) Degree
2 27 (16.36%) Security Cleared
3 24 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 19 (11.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.27%) Master's Degree
6 9 (5.45%) OSCP
7 6 (3.64%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.03%) PhD
9 4 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.85%) QA
System Software
1 19 (11.52%) Docker
2 14 (8.48%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (8.48%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.24%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.24%) KVM
5 1 (0.61%) Firmware
5 1 (0.61%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (25.45%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.52%) Terraform
3 11 (6.67%) Grafana
4 9 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.64%) Ansible
6 4 (2.42%) Nessus
6 4 (2.42%) Nmap
7 1 (0.61%) Kibana
7 1 (0.61%) logstash
7 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.85%) VMware
3 4 (2.42%) Cisco
3 4 (2.42%) Google
3 4 (2.42%) Qualtrics
3 4 (2.42%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.42%) Splunk
4 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.61%) Databricks
4 1 (0.61%) FXall
4 1 (0.61%) Solarflare
4 1 (0.61%) Tenable