Rust Job Trends in Wales

Rust
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Rust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 69 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Permanent jobs citing Rust 4 13 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.37% 1.41% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.41% 4.25% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -2.70%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 166 306 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.20% 33.19% 33.22%
Number of salaries quoted 132 166 228
10th Percentile £35,225 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £31,250 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,066 £49,104 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.21% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £79,879 £74,144 £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.17% -3.08%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Rust job vacancy trend in Wales

Rust
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Rust

Rust
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the Wales region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
South Wales -4 4 - - 13
Rust
UK

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 4 (100.00%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (100.00%) Modbus
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 4 (100.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 4 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 4 (100.00%) Law
1 4 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) CAN bus
1 4 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (100.00%) IoT
1 4 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 4 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
1 4 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Cognitive Science
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (100.00%) Ergonomics
1 4 (100.00%) Human Factors
1 4 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 4 (100.00%) Psychology
1 4 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (100.00%) Smart Manufacturing
1 4 (100.00%) Statistics
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Nessus
1 4 (100.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Qualtrics
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk