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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 599 719 547
Rank change year-on-year +120 -172 +205
Permanent jobs citing Rust 303 243 969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 0.57% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 260 183 133
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £102,813 £110,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -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 33,193 42,967 86,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.26% 43.30% 54.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,893 27,483 43,403
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,100 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 17 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 17 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 +148 277 £78,750 -1.56% 103
London +151 147 £100,000 -4.76% 76
UK excluding London +31 147 £57,500 -17.86% 31
Work from Home +99 124 £60,000 -25.00% 47
South West +43 69 £71,250 +9.62% 12
North of England +53 23 £50,000 +12.75% 8
North West +12 22 £50,000 -35.48% 7
Scotland -40 22 £100,000 - 2
East of England +24 18 £55,000 +29.41% 4
East Midlands -1 11 £65,000 +73.33%
Midlands -18 11 £65,000 -35.00% 1
South East -46 4 £53,750 -28.33% 5
Yorkshire +64 1 £65,000 +46.58%

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 (2.31%) nginx
2 6 (1.98%) Ethereum
3 5 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.32%) OpenZeppelin
5 3 (0.99%) Apache
5 3 (0.99%) Confluence
6 2 (0.66%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.66%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 73 (24.09%) AWS
2 22 (7.26%) Azure
3 15 (4.95%) GCP
4 9 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (2.64%) Cloudflare
5 8 (2.64%) GitHub
6 7 (2.31%) SaaS
7 6 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.98%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.32%) Discord
9 4 (1.32%) Serverless
10 3 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.33%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.33%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 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 13 (4.29%) NoSQL
2 12 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (1.32%) Big Data
5 4 (1.32%) MySQL
5 4 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.99%) Apache Arrow
6 3 (0.99%) Parquet
6 3 (0.99%) Redis
7 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (4.29%) Git
2 10 (3.30%) GitLab
3 6 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.98%) JIRA
3 6 (1.98%) SonarQube
3 6 (1.98%) webpack
4 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.32%) Hardhat
5 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.66%) Maven
7 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.33%) Phabricator
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (17.16%) Finance
2 44 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (3.96%) Automotive
4 12 (3.96%) Banking
5 10 (3.30%) Games
6 8 (2.64%) Front Office
7 5 (1.65%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.32%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.99%) Electronics
10 2 (0.66%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.66%) Retail
11 1 (0.33%) Esports
Job Titles
1 179 (59.08%) Software Engineer
2 97 (32.01%) Senior
3 73 (24.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 60 (19.80%) Developer
5 58 (19.14%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (19.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 35 (11.55%) Lead
7 26 (8.58%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.58%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (7.92%) Rust Engineer
9 22 (7.26%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 22 (7.26%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 16 (5.28%) Rust Software Engineer
11 15 (4.95%) Lead Software Engineer
11 15 (4.95%) Rust Developer
12 14 (4.62%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.62%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.86%) React
2 20 (6.60%) GraphQL
3 19 (6.27%) Node.js
4 13 (4.29%) Laravel
5 10 (3.30%) Django
6 9 (2.97%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.64%) Smart Contracts
8 7 (2.31%) .NET
8 7 (2.31%) Spring
9 6 (1.98%) CSS
9 6 (1.98%) Flask
9 6 (1.98%) REST
9 6 (1.98%) Symfony
10 5 (1.65%) HTML
10 5 (1.65%) iOS SDK
10 5 (1.65%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (1.65%) WebSockets
11 4 (1.32%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.32%) Middleware
11 4 (1.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.16%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (10.56%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.26%) Legacy Code
4 18 (5.94%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.28%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.95%) IoT
7 14 (4.62%) Algorithms
7 14 (4.62%) Hedge funds
8 11 (3.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.30%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (2.97%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.97%) Device Driver
10 9 (2.97%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.64%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.65%) Blog
12 5 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.65%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.32%) PKI
13 4 (1.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 139 (45.87%) Linux
2 54 (17.82%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (2.97%) Apple iOS
3 9 (2.97%) Unix
4 8 (2.64%) Android
5 6 (1.98%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.99%) Windows
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (71.95%) Software Engineering
2 65 (21.45%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (17.49%) Computer Science
4 47 (15.51%) DevOps
5 42 (13.86%) Open Source
6 37 (12.21%) Full Stack Development
7 33 (10.89%) CI/CD
8 32 (10.56%) Agile
9 28 (9.24%) Low Latency
9 28 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (8.25%) Test Automation
11 21 (6.93%) Data Management
12 20 (6.60%) Machine Learning
13 19 (6.27%) Electronic Trading
14 18 (5.94%) User Experience
15 17 (5.61%) Artificial Intelligence
16 16 (5.28%) Containerisation
16 16 (5.28%) Cryptography
16 16 (5.28%) TDD
17 15 (4.95%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 147 (48.51%) Python
2 131 (43.23%) C
3 90 (29.70%) Java
4 84 (27.72%) C++
4 84 (27.72%) Go
5 58 (19.14%) Embedded C
6 57 (18.81%) Bash
7 54 (17.82%) TypeScript
8 38 (12.54%) C#
9 30 (9.90%) JavaScript
10 26 (8.58%) SQL
11 24 (7.92%) PHP
12 22 (7.26%) Haskell
13 15 (4.95%) Ruby
14 10 (3.30%) Clojure
14 10 (3.30%) F#
15 8 (2.64%) Kotlin
16 7 (2.31%) Solidity
17 6 (1.98%) PowerShell
17 6 (1.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (19.80%) Security Cleared
2 48 (15.84%) Degree
3 17 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.61%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.95%) PhD
5 6 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.62%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.31%) 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 29 (9.57%) Docker
2 7 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.65%) Ceph
4 3 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.99%) Firmware
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (23.10%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.28%) Terraform
3 14 (4.62%) Ansible
4 5 (1.65%) Knative
5 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.66%) Grafana
8 1 (0.33%) Podman
8 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (2.97%) 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