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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 605 717 574
Rank change year-on-year +112 -143 +184
Permanent jobs citing Rust 303 258 859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.25% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 0.57% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 266 194 115
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £101,250 £111,875 £137,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%

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 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +152 275 £75,000 -11.76% 117
UK excluding London +67 150 £60,000 -7.69% 40
London +147 141 £98,750 -5.95% 80
Work from Home +118 126 £62,500 -21.88% 53
South West +56 68 £75,000 +15.38% 13
North of England +61 26 £50,000 +12.75% 8
North West +30 24 £50,000 -39.39% 6
Scotland -46 23 £100,000 - 3
East of England +25 18 £55,000 +29.41% 13
Midlands -4 11 £65,000 -35.00% 1
East Midlands -5 11 £65,000 +73.33% 1
South East -9 3 £60,000 -20.00% 4
Yorkshire +85 2 £65,000 +46.58% 1
Northern Ireland +31 1 £65,000 -

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 (2.31%) Ethereum
2 6 (1.98%) nginx
3 4 (1.32%) OpenZeppelin
4 3 (0.99%) Apache
4 3 (0.99%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.08%) AWS
2 23 (7.59%) Azure
3 13 (4.29%) GCP
4 10 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (3.30%) GitHub
5 8 (2.64%) Cloudflare
5 8 (2.64%) SaaS
6 6 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.65%) Serverless
8 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.32%) Discord
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.33%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.33%) Fastly
10 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) IPFS
2 2 (0.66%) MQTT
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.33%) Internet
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) RS-232
3 1 (0.33%) SNMP
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (2.97%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.32%) Big Data
5 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.99%) MySQL
5 3 (0.99%) Parquet
5 3 (0.99%) Redis
5 3 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.33%) Flink
6 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (3.96%) GitLab
2 10 (3.30%) Git
3 6 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.98%) JIRA
3 6 (1.98%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.98%) webpack
4 5 (1.65%) Artifactory
4 5 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.32%) Hardhat
6 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.99%) Maven
6 3 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.33%) Phabricator
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (18.15%) Finance
2 47 (15.51%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (5.61%) Banking
5 12 (3.96%) Automotive
6 11 (3.63%) Games
7 5 (1.65%) Front Office
7 5 (1.65%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.32%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Electronics
10 2 (0.66%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.66%) Retail
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (58.75%) Software Engineer
2 93 (30.69%) Senior
3 70 (23.10%) Senior Software Engineer
4 62 (20.46%) Developer
5 58 (19.14%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (19.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 30 (9.90%) Lead
7 26 (8.58%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.58%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.92%) Rust Engineer
9 22 (7.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (6.60%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 20 (6.60%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 17 (5.61%) Rust Developer
12 15 (4.95%) Rust Software Engineer
13 14 (4.62%) Python Engineer
14 13 (4.29%) Software Developer
15 12 (3.96%) Lead Software Engineer
15 12 (3.96%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 12 (3.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.87%) React
2 19 (6.27%) GraphQL
3 18 (5.94%) Node.js
4 13 (4.29%) Laravel
5 12 (3.96%) Django
6 10 (3.30%) .NET
6 10 (3.30%) AngularJS
6 10 (3.30%) Smart Contracts
7 7 (2.31%) Flask
7 7 (2.31%) Spring
8 6 (1.98%) REST
8 6 (1.98%) RESTful
8 6 (1.98%) Ruby on Rails
8 6 (1.98%) Symfony
9 5 (1.65%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.65%) CSS
9 5 (1.65%) iOS SDK
9 5 (1.65%) WebSockets
10 4 (1.32%) Truffle
10 4 (1.32%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.84%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (10.89%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.26%) Blockchain
4 20 (6.60%) Legacy Code
5 16 (5.28%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.95%) Algorithms
6 15 (4.95%) Hedge funds
6 15 (4.95%) IoT
7 12 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.30%) Embedded Systems
8 10 (3.30%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.97%) Device Driver
10 8 (2.64%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.65%) Blog
11 5 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.65%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 134 (44.22%) Linux
2 54 (17.82%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (3.30%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.97%) Android
5 7 (2.31%) Unix
6 6 (1.98%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.99%) Windows
8 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (71.62%) Software Engineering
2 63 (20.79%) Cybersecurity
3 49 (16.17%) Computer Science
4 47 (15.51%) DevOps
5 41 (13.53%) Full Stack Development
6 37 (12.21%) Open Source
7 30 (9.90%) CI/CD
8 29 (9.57%) Agile
9 27 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (8.58%) Low Latency
11 21 (6.93%) Data Management
11 21 (6.93%) Test Automation
11 21 (6.93%) User Experience
12 18 (5.94%) Containerisation
12 18 (5.94%) Machine Learning
12 18 (5.94%) UX Design
13 16 (5.28%) Cryptography
13 16 (5.28%) Electronic Trading
13 16 (5.28%) Functional Programming
14 14 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 151 (49.83%) Python
2 124 (40.92%) C
3 89 (29.37%) Java
4 79 (26.07%) Go
5 76 (25.08%) C++
6 58 (19.14%) Embedded C
7 57 (18.81%) Bash
8 52 (17.16%) TypeScript
9 40 (13.20%) C#
10 30 (9.90%) JavaScript
11 27 (8.91%) Haskell
12 22 (7.26%) PHP
13 21 (6.93%) SQL
14 18 (5.94%) Ruby
15 16 (5.28%) F#
16 14 (4.62%) Clojure
17 9 (2.97%) Kotlin
18 8 (2.64%) Scala
19 7 (2.31%) Solidity
20 6 (1.98%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 58 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.52%) Degree
3 15 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.95%) Master's Degree
3 15 (4.95%) PhD
4 4 (1.32%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.29%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.31%) MISRA
3 3 (0.99%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.99%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 29 (9.57%) Docker
2 4 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (1.32%) Firmware
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (21.45%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.28%) Terraform
3 11 (3.63%) Ansible
4 5 (1.65%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.66%) Grafana
7 1 (0.33%) Podman
7 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (2.64%) Google
2 4 (1.32%) Foundry
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle
4 2 (0.66%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.66%) QNX
5 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.33%) Coverity
5 1 (0.33%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.33%) Vertica