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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 605 725 519
Rank change year-on-year +120 -206 +218
Permanent jobs citing Rust 313 221 1,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 0.55% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 264 173 139
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £104,000 £105,000 £121,250
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £160,000
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 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
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 £85,688 £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 2 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 2 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 +152 290 £80,000 - 147
London +153 152 £100,000 -4.76% 95
UK excluding London +20 152 £57,500 -17.86% 61
Work from Home +92 123 £60,000 -25.00% 58
South West +32 68 £62,500 - 13
North of England +47 25 £50,000 +12.75% 12
North West +8 24 £50,000 -39.39% 10
Scotland -52 21 £100,000 -
East of England +9 19 £55,000 +40.13% 11
Midlands -20 14 £65,000 -35.00% 5
East Midlands -6 11 £65,000 +73.33% 2
South East -56 5 £47,500 -36.67% 21
West Midlands -28 3 £100,000 - 3
Yorkshire +55 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 (2.24%) nginx
2 6 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.92%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.28%) OpenZeppelin
4 3 (0.96%) Apache
4 3 (0.96%) Confluence
5 2 (0.64%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Ripple
2 2 (0.64%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.64%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 73 (23.32%) AWS
2 19 (6.07%) Azure
3 17 (5.43%) GCP
4 9 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (2.56%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.24%) GitHub
6 7 (2.24%) SaaS
7 6 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.28%) Discord
9 4 (1.28%) Serverless
10 2 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (0.32%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.32%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.28%) IPFS
2 2 (0.64%) Firewall
2 2 (0.64%) Network Security
2 2 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.32%) DNS
3 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.32%) MQTT
3 1 (0.32%) RS-232
3 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.15%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.28%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.96%) MySQL
5 3 (0.96%) Parquet
5 3 (0.96%) Redis
6 2 (0.64%) Big Data
7 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (4.47%) Git
2 10 (3.19%) GitLab
3 6 (1.92%) webpack
4 5 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.60%) JIRA
4 5 (1.60%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.28%) Hardhat
6 3 (0.96%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.64%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.32%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) Phabricator
General
1 56 (17.89%) Finance
2 46 (14.70%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (4.15%) Automotive
4 13 (4.15%) Banking
5 9 (2.88%) Games
6 8 (2.56%) Front Office
7 5 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.28%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.28%) Law
8 4 (1.28%) Legal
8 4 (1.28%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.96%) Electronics
10 2 (0.64%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.32%) Esports
Job Titles
1 186 (59.42%) Software Engineer
2 98 (31.31%) Senior
3 76 (24.28%) Senior Software Engineer
4 65 (20.77%) Developer
5 58 (18.53%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (18.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 36 (11.50%) Lead
7 26 (8.31%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.31%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (7.67%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 24 (7.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 23 (7.35%) Rust Engineer
10 17 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (5.11%) Rust Developer
11 16 (5.11%) Rust Software Engineer
12 15 (4.79%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.15%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.15%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.02%) React
2 21 (6.71%) Node.js
3 20 (6.39%) GraphQL
4 13 (4.15%) Laravel
5 11 (3.51%) Spring
6 10 (3.19%) AngularJS
6 10 (3.19%) Django
6 10 (3.19%) Smart Contracts
7 6 (1.92%) .NET
7 6 (1.92%) CSS
7 6 (1.92%) Flask
7 6 (1.92%) REST
7 6 (1.92%) Symfony
7 6 (1.92%) web3js
8 5 (1.60%) HTML
8 5 (1.60%) iOS SDK
8 5 (1.60%) Ruby on Rails
8 5 (1.60%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.28%) Ember.js
9 4 (1.28%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.93%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (10.54%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.67%) Legacy Code
4 22 (7.03%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.11%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.79%) Hedge funds
6 15 (4.79%) IoT
7 13 (4.15%) Algorithms
8 12 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (3.51%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.88%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.88%) Device Driver
10 9 (2.88%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (2.56%) NFT
12 6 (1.92%) Web3
13 5 (1.60%) Blog
13 5 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.60%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 145 (46.33%) Linux
2 54 (17.25%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (3.19%) Unix
4 7 (2.24%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.92%) Alpine Linux
5 6 (1.92%) Android
6 5 (1.60%) Windows
7 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (71.88%) Software Engineering
2 65 (20.77%) Cybersecurity
3 59 (18.85%) Computer Science
4 47 (15.02%) DevOps
4 47 (15.02%) Open Source
5 36 (11.50%) Full Stack Development
6 34 (10.86%) Agile
7 32 (10.22%) CI/CD
7 32 (10.22%) Low Latency
8 27 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (7.35%) Test Automation
10 21 (6.71%) Data Management
11 19 (6.07%) Electronic Trading
11 19 (6.07%) Machine Learning
12 18 (5.75%) Artificial Intelligence
13 17 (5.43%) TDD
14 16 (5.11%) Fintech
14 16 (5.11%) User Experience
15 15 (4.79%) Cryptography
15 15 (4.79%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 147 (46.96%) Python
2 136 (43.45%) C
3 91 (29.07%) C++
3 91 (29.07%) Java
4 90 (28.75%) Go
5 57 (18.21%) Embedded C
6 56 (17.89%) Bash
7 55 (17.57%) TypeScript
8 33 (10.54%) C#
9 28 (8.95%) JavaScript
10 25 (7.99%) SQL
11 23 (7.35%) PHP
12 20 (6.39%) Haskell
13 13 (4.15%) Solidity
14 10 (3.19%) Ruby
15 8 (2.56%) Clojure
15 8 (2.56%) F#
16 6 (1.92%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.92%) Scala
16 6 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.97%) Degree
3 18 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.11%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.47%) PhD
6 6 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.47%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.92%) MISRA
3 3 (0.96%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.96%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 33 (10.54%) Docker
2 6 (1.92%) Ceph
2 6 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.28%) Firmware
4 3 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 76 (24.28%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.43%) Terraform
3 15 (4.79%) Ansible
4 6 (1.92%) Knative
5 3 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.64%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) Podman
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (3.19%) Google
2 4 (1.28%) Foundry
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.96%) Coverity
3 3 (0.96%) Oracle
4 2 (0.64%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.64%) QNX
5 1 (0.32%) Intel