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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 738 522
Rank change year-on-year +141 -216 +204
Permanent jobs citing Rust 321 219 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 0.55% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 268 171 139
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £64,375 £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 £121,250
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £190,000
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 34,287 39,579 92,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.05% 42.16% 54.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25,426 26,470 43,664
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 6 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 6 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 +123 298 £80,000 - 134
London +148 159 £100,000 -4.76% 92
UK excluding London +13 153 £57,500 -17.86% 46
Work from Home +81 123 £60,000 -25.00% 45
South West +27 68 £62,500 - 12
North of England +31 25 £50,000 +12.75% 9
North West +8 24 £50,000 -39.39% 7
Scotland -60 21 £100,000 +12.68% 1
East of England -1 19 £55,000 +40.13% 8
Midlands -18 15 £65,000 -35.00% 3
East Midlands -13 11 £65,000 +73.33% 1
South East -46 5 £47,500 -36.67% 14
West Midlands -40 4 £100,000 - 2
Yorkshire +63 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 7 (2.18%) Ethereum
1 7 (2.18%) nginx
2 6 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.25%) OpenZeppelin
4 3 (0.93%) Apache
4 3 (0.93%) 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 (2.49%) Ripple
2 2 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.62%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 77 (23.99%) AWS
2 21 (6.54%) GCP
3 19 (5.92%) Azure
4 9 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (2.49%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.18%) GitHub
6 7 (2.18%) SaaS
7 6 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.87%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.25%) Discord
9 4 (1.25%) Serverless
10 2 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
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%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) IPFS
2 3 (0.93%) Firewall
2 3 (0.93%) Network Security
3 2 (0.62%) 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 (4.05%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.25%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.93%) MySQL
5 3 (0.93%) Parquet
5 3 (0.93%) 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 14 (4.36%) Git
2 10 (3.12%) GitLab
3 6 (1.87%) webpack
4 5 (1.56%) Hardhat
4 5 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.56%) JIRA
4 5 (1.56%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.93%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.31%) Maven
8 1 (0.31%) Phabricator
General
1 61 (19.00%) Finance
2 47 (14.64%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (5.30%) Banking
5 13 (4.05%) Automotive
6 9 (2.80%) Games
7 8 (2.49%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.49%) Front Office
7 8 (2.49%) Law
7 8 (2.49%) Legal
8 5 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.93%) Electronics
11 2 (0.62%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.31%) Esports
Job Titles
1 193 (60.12%) Software Engineer
2 102 (31.78%) Senior
3 80 (24.92%) Senior Software Engineer
4 65 (20.25%) Developer
5 58 (18.07%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (18.07%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 37 (11.53%) Lead
7 26 (8.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (8.10%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 26 (8.10%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 26 (8.10%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.10%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 23 (7.17%) Rust Engineer
9 18 (5.61%) Lead Software Engineer
10 16 (4.98%) Rust Software Engineer
11 15 (4.67%) Rust Developer
11 15 (4.67%) Senior Developer
12 13 (4.05%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.05%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.51%) React
2 21 (6.54%) GraphQL
2 21 (6.54%) Node.js
3 15 (4.67%) Spring
4 13 (4.05%) Laravel
5 11 (3.43%) AngularJS
5 11 (3.43%) Smart Contracts
6 10 (3.12%) Django
7 7 (2.18%) web3js
8 6 (1.87%) .NET
8 6 (1.87%) CSS
8 6 (1.87%) Flask
8 6 (1.87%) REST
8 6 (1.87%) Symfony
9 5 (1.56%) HTML
9 5 (1.56%) iOS SDK
9 5 (1.56%) Ruby on Rails
9 5 (1.56%) WebSockets
10 4 (1.25%) Ember.js
10 4 (1.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 55 (17.13%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (10.90%) Cloud Native
3 27 (8.41%) Blockchain
4 26 (8.10%) Legacy Code
5 16 (4.98%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.67%) Hedge funds
6 15 (4.67%) IoT
7 14 (4.36%) Algorithms
8 12 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.74%) NFT
9 11 (3.43%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (3.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (3.12%) Data Structures
10 10 (3.12%) Virtual Team
11 9 (2.80%) Device Driver
12 8 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (2.18%) Web3
14 5 (1.56%) Blog
14 5 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 147 (45.79%) Linux
2 54 (16.82%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (3.12%) Unix
4 7 (2.18%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.87%) Alpine Linux
5 6 (1.87%) Android
6 5 (1.56%) Windows
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (71.96%) Software Engineering
2 66 (20.56%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (19.63%) Computer Science
4 48 (14.95%) DevOps
5 47 (14.64%) Open Source
6 38 (11.84%) Agile
6 38 (11.84%) Full Stack Development
7 36 (11.21%) Low Latency
8 32 (9.97%) CI/CD
9 27 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (7.17%) Test Automation
11 21 (6.54%) Data Management
12 20 (6.23%) Fintech
13 19 (5.92%) Electronic Trading
13 19 (5.92%) Machine Learning
14 18 (5.61%) Artificial Intelligence
15 17 (5.30%) DeFi
15 17 (5.30%) TDD
16 16 (4.98%) User Experience
17 15 (4.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 148 (46.11%) Python
2 138 (42.99%) C
3 96 (29.91%) Java
4 94 (29.28%) Go
5 93 (28.97%) C++
6 57 (17.76%) Embedded C
6 57 (17.76%) TypeScript
7 56 (17.45%) Bash
8 34 (10.59%) C#
9 33 (10.28%) JavaScript
10 25 (7.79%) SQL
11 23 (7.17%) PHP
12 20 (6.23%) Haskell
13 18 (5.61%) Solidity
14 10 (3.12%) Ruby
15 8 (2.49%) Clojure
15 8 (2.49%) F#
16 7 (2.18%) Kotlin
17 6 (1.87%) PowerShell
17 6 (1.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 49 (15.26%) Degree
3 17 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.98%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.36%) PhD
6 6 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.36%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.87%) MISRA
3 3 (0.93%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.93%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 37 (11.53%) Docker
2 6 (1.87%) Ceph
2 6 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.25%) Firmware
4 3 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 83 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.30%) Terraform
3 15 (4.67%) Ansible
4 6 (1.87%) Knative
5 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) Podman
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (3.12%) Google
2 5 (1.56%) Foundry
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.93%) Coverity
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle
5 2 (0.62%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.62%) QNX
6 1 (0.31%) Intel