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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 613 726 522
Rank change year-on-year +113 -204 +211
Permanent jobs citing Rust 325 221 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.95% 0.56% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 272 172 142
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £104,000 £105,000 £126,250
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £186,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 34,343 39,181 92,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.67% 42.09% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 25,459 26,275 43,476
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +119 302 £80,000 - 133
UK excluding London +2 160 £60,000 -14.29% 47
London +115 155 £102,500 -2.38% 88
Work from Home +100 126 £65,000 -18.75% 46
South West +31 68 £62,500 - 12
North of England +40 25 £50,000 +12.75% 9
North West +12 24 £50,000 -39.39% 7
Scotland -49 21 £100,000 +12.68% 1
East of England +4 20 £55,000 +40.13% 10
Midlands -35 19 £65,000 -35.00% 2
East Midlands -24 11 £65,000 +73.33% 1
West Midlands -23 8 £100,000 - 1
South East -50 7 £47,500 -36.67% 14
Yorkshire +59 1 £65,000 +54.13% 1

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 (2.15%) Ethereum
1 7 (2.15%) nginx
2 6 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.23%) OpenZeppelin
4 3 (0.92%) Apache
4 3 (0.92%) Confluence
5 2 (0.62%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 8 (2.46%) Ripple
2 2 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.62%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 75 (23.08%) AWS
2 21 (6.46%) GCP
3 17 (5.23%) Azure
4 9 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (2.46%) Cloudflare
5 8 (2.46%) SaaS
6 6 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.85%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.85%) GitHub
7 5 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.23%) Discord
8 4 (1.23%) Serverless
9 3 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.62%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.31%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.54%) Firewall
1 5 (1.54%) Network Security
2 4 (1.23%) IPFS
3 3 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.31%) DNS
4 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.31%) Internet
4 1 (0.31%) MQTT
4 1 (0.31%) RS-232
4 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 12 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.23%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.92%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.92%) MySQL
5 3 (0.92%) Parquet
5 3 (0.92%) Redis
6 2 (0.62%) Big Data
7 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.62%) Git
2 9 (2.77%) GitLab
3 6 (1.85%) webpack
4 5 (1.54%) Hardhat
5 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.23%) JIRA
5 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.92%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.31%) Maven
7 1 (0.31%) Phabricator
7 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (18.46%) Finance
2 47 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (4.62%) Banking
5 13 (4.00%) Automotive
6 9 (2.77%) Games
7 8 (2.46%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.46%) Front Office
7 8 (2.46%) Law
7 8 (2.46%) Legal
8 5 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.23%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.92%) Electronics
11 2 (0.62%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.31%) Esports
Job Titles
1 190 (58.46%) Software Engineer
2 101 (31.08%) Senior
3 79 (24.31%) Senior Software Engineer
4 73 (22.46%) Developer
5 58 (17.85%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (17.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 37 (11.38%) Lead
7 26 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (8.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 26 (8.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 26 (8.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 23 (7.08%) Rust Engineer
9 18 (5.54%) Lead Software Engineer
9 18 (5.54%) Rust Developer
10 16 (4.92%) Rust Software Engineer
11 15 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 13 (4.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.00%) React
2 21 (6.46%) GraphQL
2 21 (6.46%) Node.js
3 15 (4.62%) Spring
4 13 (4.00%) Laravel
5 11 (3.38%) Smart Contracts
6 10 (3.08%) AngularJS
6 10 (3.08%) Django
7 7 (2.15%) web3js
8 6 (1.85%) CSS
8 6 (1.85%) Flask
8 6 (1.85%) REST
8 6 (1.85%) Symfony
9 5 (1.54%) HTML
9 5 (1.54%) iOS SDK
9 5 (1.54%) Ruby on Rails
9 5 (1.54%) WebSockets
10 4 (1.23%) CakePHP
10 4 (1.23%) Ember.js
10 4 (1.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.31%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (10.46%) Cloud Native
3 27 (8.31%) Blockchain
4 26 (8.00%) Legacy Code
5 16 (4.92%) Client/Server
5 16 (4.92%) IoT
6 15 (4.62%) Algorithms
6 15 (4.62%) Hedge funds
7 12 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.69%) NFT
8 11 (3.38%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.38%) Embedded Systems
8 11 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.08%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.77%) Device Driver
11 8 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (2.15%) Web3
13 5 (1.54%) Blog
13 5 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 147 (45.23%) Linux
2 54 (16.62%) Embedded Linux
3 11 (3.38%) Unix
4 7 (2.15%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.85%) Alpine Linux
5 6 (1.85%) Android
5 6 (1.85%) Windows
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (70.46%) Software Engineering
2 70 (21.54%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (19.69%) Computer Science
4 48 (14.77%) Open Source
5 46 (14.15%) DevOps
6 38 (11.69%) Agile
7 36 (11.08%) Full Stack Development
7 36 (11.08%) Low Latency
8 30 (9.23%) CI/CD
9 28 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (6.77%) Test Automation
11 21 (6.46%) Data Management
12 20 (6.15%) Fintech
12 20 (6.15%) Machine Learning
13 19 (5.85%) Artificial Intelligence
13 19 (5.85%) Electronic Trading
14 17 (5.23%) DeFi
15 16 (4.92%) TDD
16 15 (4.62%) Cryptography
17 14 (4.31%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 148 (45.54%) Python
2 141 (43.38%) C
3 98 (30.15%) C++
4 96 (29.54%) Go
5 94 (28.92%) Java
6 57 (17.54%) Embedded C
6 57 (17.54%) TypeScript
7 56 (17.23%) Bash
8 33 (10.15%) JavaScript
9 32 (9.85%) C#
10 25 (7.69%) SQL
11 23 (7.08%) PHP
12 18 (5.54%) Haskell
12 18 (5.54%) Solidity
13 9 (2.77%) Ruby
14 7 (2.15%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.85%) Clojure
15 6 (1.85%) F#
15 6 (1.85%) Scala
15 6 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.38%) Degree
3 18 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.92%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.31%) PhD
6 6 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.31%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.85%) MISRA
3 3 (0.92%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.92%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 35 (10.77%) Docker
2 6 (1.85%) Ceph
2 6 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.54%) Firmware
4 3 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 82 (25.23%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.92%) Terraform
3 14 (4.31%) Ansible
4 6 (1.85%) Knative
5 2 (0.62%) Grafana
5 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.31%) Podman
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.31%) Puppet
6 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (3.08%) Google
2 5 (1.54%) Foundry
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.92%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.92%) Coverity
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle
5 2 (0.62%) Intel
5 2 (0.62%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.62%) QNX
6 1 (0.31%) Sun