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 19 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 565 780
Rank change year-on-year +134 +215 -150
Permanent jobs citing Rust 282 311 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 1.00% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 200 264 177
10th Percentile £37,574 £45,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,000 £52,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -13.16% +22.58%
75th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £130,000
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 16,056 31,037 49,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.57% 35.27% 44.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,388 24,172 31,239
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,872 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -7.69% +6.56%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +4.76%

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 19 March 2025.

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 19 March 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 +113 247 £90,000 +9.09% 66
UK excluding London +122 152 £58,000 -3.33% 41
London +69 125 £100,000 - 41
Work from Home +61 56 £105,000 +40.00% 51
South East +129 50 £72,500 +11.54% 7
East of England +51 23 £72,500 +31.82% 9
North of England +40 22 £55,000 +10.00% 8
Scotland +91 19 £58,000 -42.00% 10
South West +48 15 £57,500 -23.33% 5
North West 0 12 £55,000 +10.00% 8
Wales - 12 £49,050 - 1
Midlands +52 11 £57,500 -4.17% 1
East Midlands +45 11 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Yorkshire +72 10 £42,500 -29.75%

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 (8.16%) Apache
2 5 (1.77%) Apache Solr
2 5 (1.77%) nginx
3 2 (0.71%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.99%) AWS
2 12 (4.26%) GCP
3 11 (3.90%) Azure
4 5 (1.77%) GitHub
4 5 (1.77%) SaaS
5 3 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (1.06%) PaaS
6 2 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.35%) CloudAMQP
7 1 (0.35%) Figma
7 1 (0.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.35%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.77%) Big Data
2 5 (1.77%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.77%) MySQL
3 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.35%) GIS
3 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.35%) Redis
3 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (8.16%) Eclipse
1 23 (8.16%) Eclipse RCP
2 9 (3.19%) Git
3 8 (2.84%) GitLab
4 5 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.71%) JIRA
7 1 (0.35%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 32 (11.35%) Finance
2 21 (7.45%) Social Skills
3 14 (4.96%) Law
4 9 (3.19%) Marketing
5 7 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.13%) Banking
7 5 (1.77%) Electronics
8 4 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.71%) Automotive
9 2 (0.71%) Military
9 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.35%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Retail
10 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 224 (79.43%) Software Engineer
2 136 (48.23%) Senior
3 126 (44.68%) Senior Software Engineer
4 45 (15.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (14.54%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 41 (14.54%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 28 (9.93%) Lead
7 24 (8.51%) Developer
8 23 (8.16%) Junior
8 23 (8.16%) Junior Software Engineer
8 23 (8.16%) Lead Software Engineer
9 22 (7.80%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 19 (6.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 18 (6.38%) Principal Engineer
12 16 (5.67%) Principal Software Engineer
13 12 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 12 (4.26%) Gen AI Engineer
13 12 (4.26%) Gen AI Software Engineer
14 11 (3.90%) Software Developer
15 8 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.73%) React
2 41 (14.54%) GraphQL
3 32 (11.35%) HTML
4 27 (9.57%) CSS
5 23 (8.16%) JSP
5 23 (8.16%) Middleware
6 14 (4.96%) Node.js
7 13 (4.61%) REST
8 12 (4.26%) Flutter
9 6 (2.13%) Next.js
10 5 (1.77%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.77%) jQuery
11 4 (1.42%) .NET
11 4 (1.42%) Jest
12 3 (1.06%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.06%) AWS CDK
12 3 (1.06%) Smart Contracts
12 3 (1.06%) WebSockets
13 2 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (0.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 71 (25.18%) Distributed Systems
2 43 (15.25%) Cloud Native
3 41 (14.54%) Legacy Code
4 18 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.19%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.48%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.48%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.77%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.42%) FPGA
11 3 (1.06%) IoT
11 3 (1.06%) Molecular Biology
11 3 (1.06%) VHDL
12 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.71%) Derivative
12 2 (0.71%) Energy Derivatives
12 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 93 (32.98%) Linux
2 26 (9.22%) Windows
3 3 (1.06%) Debian
4 2 (0.71%) Android
4 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (87.94%) Software Engineering
2 105 (37.23%) Mathematics
3 96 (34.04%) Computer Science
4 91 (32.27%) CI/CD
5 80 (28.37%) Agile
6 69 (24.47%) Software Testing
7 67 (23.76%) Test Automation
8 65 (23.05%) DevSecOps
9 49 (17.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 40 (14.18%) Physics
11 37 (13.12%) Mentoring
11 37 (13.12%) SDLC
12 25 (8.87%) OO
13 24 (8.51%) Analytics
13 24 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (8.51%) UML
13 24 (8.51%) Unit Testing
14 23 (8.16%) Business Analytics
14 23 (8.16%) ETL
14 23 (8.16%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 178 (63.12%) Python
2 135 (47.87%) C++
3 123 (43.62%) Java
4 83 (29.43%) Go
5 78 (27.66%) C
6 65 (23.05%) TypeScript
7 38 (13.48%) C#
8 32 (11.35%) SQL
9 26 (9.22%) Ada
9 26 (9.22%) JavaScript
10 23 (8.16%) Ruby
11 15 (5.32%) Perl
12 12 (4.26%) Clojure
12 12 (4.26%) Elixir
12 12 (4.26%) Scala
13 4 (1.42%) Bash
13 4 (1.42%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.06%) Groovy
15 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 126 (44.68%) Degree
2 23 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (3.55%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.13%) PhD
6 4 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.71%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.67%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.42%) WAI
3 3 (1.06%) MISRA
4 2 (0.71%) JTAG
4 2 (0.71%) QA
5 1 (0.35%) Def Stans
System Software
1 28 (9.93%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (0.71%) Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (42.20%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.45%) Terraform
3 5 (1.77%) Ansible
4 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) Argo
5 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (2.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.13%) Google
3 2 (0.71%) Parasoft
4 1 (0.35%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.35%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.35%) Xilinx