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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 618 719 564
Rank change year-on-year +101 -155 +178
Permanent jobs citing Rust 308 254 882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.25% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 0.57% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 269 191 123
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £137,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.43% +20.45% -15.38%

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 33,195 44,728 84,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.69% 43.23% 53.73%
Number of salaries quoted 24,962 28,546 44,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 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 +149 280 £78,750 -4.55% 129
UK excluding London +41 149 £60,000 -9.43% 39
London +150 148 £97,500 -7.14% 94
Work from Home +104 126 £60,000 -25.00% 59
South West +32 69 £71,250 +9.62% 8
North of England +53 24 £50,000 +12.75% 9
Scotland -46 23 £100,000 - 2
North West +29 22 £50,000 -39.39% 7
East of England +29 18 £55,000 +29.41% 13
Midlands +5 11 £65,000 -35.00% 1
East Midlands -2 11 £65,000 +73.33% 1
South East -16 3 £60,000 -20.00% 7
Yorkshire +77 2 £65,000 +46.58% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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 7 (2.27%) Ethereum
2 6 (1.95%) nginx
3 4 (1.30%) OpenZeppelin
4 3 (0.97%) Apache
4 3 (0.97%) Confluence
4 3 (0.97%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.65%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 77 (25.00%) AWS
2 23 (7.47%) Azure
3 13 (4.22%) GCP
4 10 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (3.25%) GitHub
5 8 (2.60%) Cloudflare
5 8 (2.60%) SaaS
6 6 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.95%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.62%) Serverless
8 4 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.30%) Discord
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.32%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.32%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.32%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) IPFS
2 2 (0.65%) MQTT
3 1 (0.32%) DNS
3 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.32%) Network Security
3 1 (0.32%) RS-232
3 1 (0.32%) SNMP
3 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.25%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.97%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.97%) Big Data
5 3 (0.97%) MySQL
5 3 (0.97%) Parquet
5 3 (0.97%) Redis
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.32%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.32%) Flink
7 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (3.90%) Git
1 12 (3.90%) GitLab
2 8 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.60%) JIRA
2 8 (2.60%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.95%) webpack
4 5 (1.62%) Artifactory
4 5 (1.62%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.30%) Hardhat
6 3 (0.97%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.65%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) Phabricator
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (17.86%) Finance
2 45 (14.61%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (5.19%) Banking
5 12 (3.90%) Automotive
6 11 (3.57%) Games
7 6 (1.95%) Front Office
8 5 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.30%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.97%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.97%) Electronics
11 2 (0.65%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (58.77%) Software Engineer
2 97 (31.49%) Senior
3 73 (23.70%) Senior Software Engineer
4 62 (20.13%) Developer
5 58 (18.83%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (18.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 33 (10.71%) Lead
7 26 (8.44%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.44%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (7.79%) Rust Engineer
9 22 (7.14%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 22 (7.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 18 (5.84%) Rust Developer
11 15 (4.87%) Rust Software Engineer
12 14 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (4.55%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.22%) Senior Developer
14 11 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.99%) React
2 19 (6.17%) GraphQL
2 19 (6.17%) Node.js
3 13 (4.22%) Laravel
4 12 (3.90%) Django
5 10 (3.25%) .NET
5 10 (3.25%) AngularJS
5 10 (3.25%) Smart Contracts
6 7 (2.27%) Flask
6 7 (2.27%) Spring
7 6 (1.95%) REST
7 6 (1.95%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (1.95%) Symfony
8 5 (1.62%) .NET Core
8 5 (1.62%) CSS
8 5 (1.62%) iOS SDK
8 5 (1.62%) RESTful
8 5 (1.62%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.30%) Middleware
9 4 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.88%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.14%) Legacy Code
4 21 (6.82%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.19%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.87%) Algorithms
6 15 (4.87%) Hedge funds
6 15 (4.87%) IoT
7 12 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (3.25%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.25%) Embedded Systems
8 10 (3.25%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.92%) Device Driver
9 9 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.62%) Blog
11 5 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.62%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.30%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 136 (44.16%) Linux
2 54 (17.53%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (2.92%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.60%) Android
4 8 (2.60%) Unix
5 6 (1.95%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.97%) Windows
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (71.75%) Software Engineering
2 65 (21.10%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (16.56%) Computer Science
4 48 (15.58%) DevOps
5 41 (13.31%) Full Stack Development
6 39 (12.66%) Open Source
7 34 (11.04%) CI/CD
8 30 (9.74%) Agile
9 28 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (8.44%) Low Latency
11 23 (7.47%) Test Automation
12 21 (6.82%) Data Management
12 21 (6.82%) User Experience
13 20 (6.49%) Machine Learning
14 18 (5.84%) Containerisation
14 18 (5.84%) UX Design
15 17 (5.52%) Electronic Trading
16 16 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence
16 16 (5.19%) Cryptography
17 14 (4.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 152 (49.35%) Python
2 130 (42.21%) C
3 90 (29.22%) Java
4 83 (26.95%) C++
5 82 (26.62%) Go
6 58 (18.83%) Embedded C
7 57 (18.51%) Bash
8 53 (17.21%) TypeScript
9 41 (13.31%) C#
10 30 (9.74%) JavaScript
11 25 (8.12%) Haskell
12 23 (7.47%) PHP
13 22 (7.14%) SQL
14 18 (5.84%) Ruby
15 14 (4.55%) Clojure
15 14 (4.55%) F#
16 8 (2.60%) Kotlin
17 7 (2.27%) Solidity
18 6 (1.95%) PowerShell
18 6 (1.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.94%) Degree
3 17 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.52%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.87%) PhD
5 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.22%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.27%) MISRA
3 3 (0.97%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.97%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 29 (9.42%) Docker
2 4 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (1.30%) Firmware
2 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.65%) Ceph
4 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (22.08%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.84%) Terraform
3 13 (4.22%) Ansible
4 5 (1.62%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.65%) Grafana
6 2 (0.65%) Knative
7 1 (0.32%) Podman
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (2.60%) Google
2 4 (1.30%) Foundry
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.97%) Coverity
3 3 (0.97%) Oracle
4 2 (0.65%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.65%) QNX
5 1 (0.32%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.32%) Vertica