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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 721 556
Rank change year-on-year +113 -165 +198
Permanent jobs citing Rust 305 255 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.25% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 0.58% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 265 192 124
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,375 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year - -4.48% +11.67%
75th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £137,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.62% +18.18% -12.00%

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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 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 9 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 +146 279 £80,000 -3.03% 104
London +128 148 £96,750 -7.86% 74
UK excluding London +51 147 £58,750 -9.62% 34
Work from Home +99 122 £57,500 -28.13% 52
South West +37 69 £71,250 +9.62% 9
North of England +61 23 £50,000 +12.75% 9
Scotland -48 23 £100,000 - 2
North West +30 22 £50,000 -39.39% 7
East of England +32 18 £55,000 +29.41% 9
East Midlands -7 11 £65,000 +73.33%
Midlands -22 11 £65,000 -35.00%
South East -43 3 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +81 1 £65,000 +46.58% 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 6 (1.97%) Ethereum
1 6 (1.97%) nginx
2 4 (1.31%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.31%) OpenZeppelin
3 3 (0.98%) Apache
3 3 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.66%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.66%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 76 (24.92%) AWS
2 22 (7.21%) Azure
3 13 (4.26%) GCP
4 9 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (2.95%) GitHub
5 8 (2.62%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.30%) SaaS
7 6 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.97%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.31%) Discord
9 4 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.31%) Serverless
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.33%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.33%) Fastly
10 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.31%) 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 12 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.61%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.98%) Big Data
5 3 (0.98%) MySQL
5 3 (0.98%) Parquet
5 3 (0.98%) Redis
6 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (3.93%) Git
2 11 (3.61%) GitLab
3 7 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.30%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.97%) JIRA
4 6 (1.97%) webpack
5 4 (1.31%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.31%) Hardhat
5 4 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.98%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.66%) Maven
8 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.33%) Phabricator
8 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (17.38%) Finance
2 42 (13.77%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (5.25%) Banking
5 12 (3.93%) Automotive
6 11 (3.61%) Games
7 7 (2.30%) Front Office
8 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.31%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.98%) Electronics
11 2 (0.66%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.66%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 183 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 99 (32.46%) Senior
3 75 (24.59%) Senior Software Engineer
4 59 (19.34%) Developer
5 58 (19.02%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (19.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 34 (11.15%) Lead
7 26 (8.52%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.52%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 23 (7.54%) Rust Engineer
10 22 (7.21%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 22 (7.21%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 17 (5.57%) Rust Developer
12 15 (4.92%) Lead Software Engineer
12 15 (4.92%) Rust Software Engineer
13 13 (4.26%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.26%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.44%) React
2 20 (6.56%) GraphQL
3 18 (5.90%) Node.js
4 13 (4.26%) Laravel
5 10 (3.28%) Django
6 9 (2.95%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.62%) .NET
7 8 (2.62%) Smart Contracts
8 7 (2.30%) Spring
9 6 (1.97%) CSS
9 6 (1.97%) Flask
9 6 (1.97%) REST
9 6 (1.97%) Symfony
10 5 (1.64%) HTML
10 5 (1.64%) iOS SDK
10 5 (1.64%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (1.64%) WebSockets
11 4 (1.31%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.31%) CakePHP
11 4 (1.31%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.70%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (10.82%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.21%) Legacy Code
4 18 (5.90%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.25%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.92%) IoT
7 14 (4.59%) Algorithms
7 14 (4.59%) Hedge funds
8 12 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.28%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.95%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.95%) Device Driver
11 8 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.64%) Blog
12 5 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.64%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.31%) PKI
13 4 (1.31%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 137 (44.92%) Linux
2 54 (17.70%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (2.95%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.62%) Android
4 8 (2.62%) Unix
5 6 (1.97%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.98%) Windows
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (72.46%) Software Engineering
2 65 (21.31%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (17.05%) Computer Science
4 47 (15.41%) DevOps
5 41 (13.44%) Full Stack Development
6 40 (13.11%) Open Source
7 33 (10.82%) CI/CD
8 31 (10.16%) Agile
9 28 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (8.85%) Low Latency
11 24 (7.87%) Test Automation
12 22 (7.21%) User Experience
13 21 (6.89%) Data Management
14 20 (6.56%) Machine Learning
15 19 (6.23%) UX Design
16 18 (5.90%) Electronic Trading
17 17 (5.57%) Containerisation
18 16 (5.25%) Artificial Intelligence
18 16 (5.25%) Cryptography
19 14 (4.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 147 (48.20%) Python
2 131 (42.95%) C
3 90 (29.51%) Java
4 84 (27.54%) C++
5 80 (26.23%) Go
6 58 (19.02%) Embedded C
7 57 (18.69%) Bash
8 53 (17.38%) TypeScript
9 39 (12.79%) C#
10 30 (9.84%) JavaScript
11 25 (8.20%) Haskell
12 23 (7.54%) PHP
12 23 (7.54%) SQL
13 16 (5.25%) Ruby
14 14 (4.59%) Clojure
14 14 (4.59%) F#
15 8 (2.62%) Kotlin
16 7 (2.30%) Solidity
17 6 (1.97%) PowerShell
17 6 (1.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.41%) Degree
3 17 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.57%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.92%) PhD
5 6 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.59%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.30%) MISRA
3 3 (0.98%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.98%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.33%) GDPR
4 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 28 (9.18%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.31%) Ceph
4 3 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.98%) Firmware
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.25%) Terraform
3 14 (4.59%) Ansible
4 4 (1.31%) Knative
4 4 (1.31%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.66%) Grafana
6 1 (0.33%) Podman
6 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (2.62%) Google
2 4 (1.31%) Foundry
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.98%) Coverity
3 3 (0.98%) Oracle
4 2 (0.66%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.66%) QNX
5 1 (0.33%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.33%) Vertica