Rust Job Trends in the West Midlands

Rust
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Rust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 - 223
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Permanent jobs citing Rust 6 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.091% - 0.065%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% - 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £42,500 - -
25th Percentile £56,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £28,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -71.50%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -17.50%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 804 909 1,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.17% 25.38% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 638 582 1,528
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Rust job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Rust
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Rust in the West Midlands

Rust
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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
Worcestershire - 4 £100,000 - 3
Birmingham - 2 £45,000 - 1
Rust
England

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Rust Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Rust Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PHP
1 2 (33.33%) SQL