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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 726 556
Rank change year-on-year +133 -170 +194
Permanent jobs citing Rust 302 251 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.25% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 0.57% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 261 190 133
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,162 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £68,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.36% +25.00% -8.33%

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 33,111 43,735 85,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 43.20% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,988 43,700
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £106,417 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.77% +6.00%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 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 +147 277 £75,000 -6.25% 114
UK excluding London +35 147 £57,500 -16.36% 35
London +137 145 £98,750 -5.95% 79
Work from Home +115 125 £57,500 -28.13% 49
South West +41 69 £71,250 +9.62% 11
North of England +56 23 £50,000 +12.75% 10
North West +19 22 £50,000 -35.48% 8
Scotland -38 22 £100,000 - 2
East of England +29 18 £55,000 +29.41% 7
East Midlands +3 11 £65,000 +73.33%
Midlands -13 11 £65,000 -35.00% 1
South East -32 4 £53,750 -28.33% 4
Yorkshire +74 1 £65,000 +46.58% 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 6 (1.99%) Ethereum
1 6 (1.99%) nginx
2 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.32%) OpenZeppelin
3 3 (0.99%) Apache
3 3 (0.99%) Confluence
4 2 (0.66%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.66%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 75 (24.83%) AWS
2 23 (7.62%) Azure
3 14 (4.64%) GCP
4 9 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (2.98%) GitHub
5 8 (2.65%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.32%) SaaS
7 6 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.99%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.32%) Discord
9 4 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.32%) Serverless
10 1 (0.33%) 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 1 (0.33%) DNS
2 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) MQTT
2 1 (0.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) RS-232
2 1 (0.33%) SNMP
2 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.97%) NoSQL
1 12 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (1.66%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.99%) Big Data
5 3 (0.99%) MySQL
5 3 (0.99%) Parquet
5 3 (0.99%) Redis
6 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (3.97%) Git
2 11 (3.64%) GitLab
3 7 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.32%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.99%) JIRA
4 6 (1.99%) webpack
5 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.32%) Hardhat
5 4 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.66%) Maven
8 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.33%) Phabricator
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (17.22%) Finance
2 43 (14.24%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (4.64%) Banking
5 12 (3.97%) Automotive
6 11 (3.64%) Games
7 7 (2.32%) Front Office
8 5 (1.66%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.32%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.99%) Electronics
11 2 (0.66%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.66%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Esports
Job Titles
1 178 (58.94%) Software Engineer
2 96 (31.79%) Senior
3 72 (23.84%) Senior Software Engineer
4 59 (19.54%) Developer
5 58 (19.21%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (19.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 33 (10.93%) Lead
7 26 (8.61%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.61%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.95%) Rust Engineer
9 22 (7.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (6.62%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 20 (6.62%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 17 (5.63%) Rust Developer
12 16 (5.30%) Rust Software Engineer
13 14 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (4.64%) Python Engineer
14 13 (4.30%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 12 (3.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.58%) React
2 19 (6.29%) GraphQL
2 19 (6.29%) Node.js
3 13 (4.30%) Laravel
4 10 (3.31%) Django
5 9 (2.98%) AngularJS
6 8 (2.65%) .NET
6 8 (2.65%) Smart Contracts
7 7 (2.32%) Spring
8 6 (1.99%) CSS
8 6 (1.99%) Flask
8 6 (1.99%) REST
8 6 (1.99%) Symfony
9 5 (1.66%) HTML
9 5 (1.66%) iOS SDK
9 5 (1.66%) Ruby on Rails
9 5 (1.66%) WebSockets
10 4 (1.32%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.32%) CakePHP
10 4 (1.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.56%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.62%) Legacy Code
4 18 (5.96%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.30%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.97%) IoT
7 14 (4.64%) Algorithms
7 14 (4.64%) Hedge funds
8 12 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.31%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.31%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.98%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.98%) Device Driver
11 8 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.66%) Blog
12 5 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.66%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.32%) PKI
13 4 (1.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 135 (44.70%) Linux
2 54 (17.88%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (2.98%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.65%) Android
4 8 (2.65%) Unix
5 6 (1.99%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.99%) Windows
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (71.85%) Software Engineering
2 65 (21.52%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (17.22%) Computer Science
4 47 (15.56%) DevOps
5 41 (13.58%) Open Source
6 38 (12.58%) Full Stack Development
7 33 (10.93%) CI/CD
8 31 (10.26%) Agile
9 28 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (8.94%) Low Latency
11 24 (7.95%) Test Automation
12 21 (6.95%) Data Management
13 20 (6.62%) Machine Learning
13 20 (6.62%) User Experience
14 18 (5.96%) Electronic Trading
15 17 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence
15 17 (5.63%) Containerisation
15 17 (5.63%) UX Design
16 16 (5.30%) Cryptography
17 15 (4.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 149 (49.34%) Python
2 128 (42.38%) C
3 90 (29.80%) Java
4 81 (26.82%) C++
4 81 (26.82%) Go
5 58 (19.21%) Embedded C
6 57 (18.87%) Bash
7 53 (17.55%) TypeScript
8 39 (12.91%) C#
9 30 (9.93%) JavaScript
10 24 (7.95%) Haskell
10 24 (7.95%) PHP
10 24 (7.95%) SQL
11 16 (5.30%) Ruby
12 12 (3.97%) Clojure
12 12 (3.97%) F#
13 8 (2.65%) Kotlin
14 7 (2.32%) Solidity
15 6 (1.99%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 48 (15.89%) Degree
3 17 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.63%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.97%) PhD
5 6 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.64%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.32%) 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 28 (9.27%) Docker
2 6 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.32%) Ceph
4 3 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.99%) Firmware
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 67 (22.19%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.30%) Terraform
3 14 (4.64%) Ansible
4 4 (1.32%) Knative
4 4 (1.32%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.66%) Grafana
6 1 (0.33%) Podman
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (2.65%) Google
2 4 (1.32%) Foundry
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.99%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.99%) Coverity
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle
4 2 (0.66%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.66%) QNX
5 1 (0.33%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.33%) Vertica