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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 622 728
Rank change year-on-year +312 +106 -200
Permanent jobs citing Rust 517 303 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.12% 0.90% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 201 260 177
10th Percentile £37,574 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £52,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £104,250 £105,000
90th Percentile - £157,500 £200,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £57,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% -18.57% +27.27%

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 16,594 33,687 41,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.95% 32.62% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,785 25,114 26,852
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Rust in the UK

Rust
Top 16 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 May 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 +264 493 £90,000 +12.50% 1,216
UK excluding London +345 373 £58,000 +1.75% 1,188
Work from Home +256 301 £77,500 +31.91% 809
North of England +201 198 £58,000 +16.00% 236
North West +134 181 £66,250 +32.50% 114
London +101 133 £102,500 +1.23% 192
South East +159 76 £60,000 +26.32% 375
East of England +61 32 £54,000 -1.82% 179
Midlands +102 28 £58,000 -10.77% 211
South West +56 19 £58,000 -7.20% 133
East Midlands +53 18 £49,050 -24.54% 79
Yorkshire +75 16 £42,500 -34.62% 93
Scotland +112 15 £58,000 -42.00% 56
West Midlands +67 10 £77,500 -22.50% 118
Wales - 5 £49,050 - 29
North East - 1 - - 29

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 (4.45%) Apache
2 2 (0.39%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.19%) CMS
3 1 (0.19%) nginx
3 1 (0.19%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 257 (49.71%) Azure
2 253 (48.94%) AWS
3 181 (35.01%) GCP
4 51 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
5 50 (9.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (0.77%) SaaS
7 3 (0.58%) Serverless
8 2 (0.39%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.39%) Figma
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.19%) CloudAMQP
9 1 (0.19%) GitHub
9 1 (0.19%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.58%) Internet
2 2 (0.39%) HTTP
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.48%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.77%) MySQL
4 4 (0.77%) Redis
5 3 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.19%) Big Data
7 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.19%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.19%) Parquet
7 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (4.45%) Eclipse
1 23 (4.45%) Eclipse RCP
2 9 (1.74%) Git
3 4 (0.77%) GitLab
3 4 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.39%) webpack
5 1 (0.19%) CMake
5 1 (0.19%) JUnit
5 1 (0.19%) Mockito
5 1 (0.19%) PetaLinux
5 1 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 234 (45.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 50 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (6.96%) Social Skills
4 30 (5.80%) Finance
5 11 (2.13%) Banking
6 9 (1.74%) Law
7 4 (0.77%) Retail
8 2 (0.39%) Digital Health
8 2 (0.39%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (0.39%) Electronics
8 2 (0.39%) Front Office
8 2 (0.39%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.39%) Marketing
8 2 (0.39%) Military
8 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.19%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.19%) Legal
9 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.19%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 350 (67.70%) Software Engineer
2 277 (53.58%) Senior
3 263 (50.87%) Senior Software Engineer
4 66 (12.77%) Developer
5 59 (11.41%) Software Developer
6 45 (8.70%) Lead
7 35 (6.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (6.77%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 35 (6.77%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 23 (4.45%) Junior
8 23 (4.45%) Junior Software Engineer
9 21 (4.06%) Lead Software Engineer
9 21 (4.06%) Software Team Leader
9 21 (4.06%) Team Leader
10 20 (3.87%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 15 (2.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 8 (1.55%) Java Engineer
13 7 (1.35%) Principal Engineer
14 6 (1.16%) Rust Engineer
15 5 (0.97%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (45.45%) Node.js
2 228 (44.10%) .NET
3 74 (14.31%) HTML
4 49 (9.48%) Pandas
5 45 (8.70%) React
6 41 (7.93%) GraphQL
7 23 (4.45%) CSS
7 23 (4.45%) JSP
7 23 (4.45%) Middleware
8 8 (1.55%) gRPC
8 8 (1.55%) Spring
9 4 (0.77%) Kafka
9 4 (0.77%) REST
10 3 (0.58%) Django
10 3 (0.58%) JWT
10 3 (0.58%) OAuth
10 3 (0.58%) OpenID
10 3 (0.58%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.58%) web3js
10 3 (0.58%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 227 (43.91%) Cyberattack
2 180 (34.82%) Self-Motivation
3 178 (34.43%) Linux Command Line
4 47 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (8.70%) Cloud Native
6 35 (6.77%) Legacy Code
7 9 (1.74%) Blockchain
7 9 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.77%) Market Risk
10 4 (0.77%) Smartphone
11 3 (0.58%) Web3
12 2 (0.39%) Derivative
12 2 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.39%) FPGA
12 2 (0.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 303 (58.61%) Linux
2 52 (10.06%) Android
3 27 (5.22%) Windows
4 4 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (80.08%) Software Engineering
2 305 (58.99%) Agile
3 234 (45.26%) Machine Learning
4 207 (40.04%) Mentoring
5 200 (38.68%) Scrum
6 189 (36.56%) Microservices
7 184 (35.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 182 (35.20%) Cloud Security
9 180 (34.82%) Data Engineering
9 180 (34.82%) User Experience
10 134 (25.92%) Mathematics
11 112 (21.66%) CI/CD
12 108 (20.89%) Computer Science
13 80 (15.47%) Containerisation
14 78 (15.09%) OO
15 70 (13.54%) Line Management
16 68 (13.15%) Test Automation
17 61 (11.80%) Artificial Intelligence
18 57 (11.03%) Design Patterns
19 54 (10.44%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 396 (76.60%) Java
2 390 (75.44%) Python
3 362 (70.02%) C++
4 296 (57.25%) JavaScript
5 287 (55.51%) Go
6 106 (20.50%) TypeScript
7 100 (19.34%) C#
8 99 (19.15%) C
9 81 (15.67%) SQL
10 52 (10.06%) Ruby
11 49 (9.48%) Dart
11 49 (9.48%) MATLAB
11 49 (9.48%) PHP
11 49 (9.48%) R
12 24 (4.64%) Ada
13 5 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.77%) Clojure
14 4 (0.77%) Elixir
14 4 (0.77%) Scala
14 4 (0.77%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 235 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 230 (44.49%) DV Cleared
3 180 (34.82%) AWS Certification
4 178 (34.43%) AWS Certified Developer
4 178 (34.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 143 (27.66%) Degree
6 53 (10.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (4.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.16%) PhD
9 2 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.77%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.19%) MISRA
2 1 (0.19%) QA
System Software
1 59 (11.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 143 (27.66%) Kubernetes
2 57 (11.03%) Terraform
3 53 (10.25%) Ansible
4 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.39%) Argo
5 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.77%) Google
3 3 (0.58%) Alibaba
4 2 (0.39%) ForgeRock
4 2 (0.39%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.19%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle
5 1 (0.19%) Xilinx