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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 616 732 518
Rank change year-on-year +116 -214 +212
Permanent jobs citing Rust 311 218 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 0.54% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 264 172 139
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 33,900 40,052 91,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 42.32% 54.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,257 26,577 43,330
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 1 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 1 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 +118 288 £80,000 - 135
UK excluding London +27 152 £57,500 -17.86% 50
London +159 150 £100,000 -4.76% 85
Work from Home +89 123 £60,000 -25.00% 54
South West +34 68 £62,500 - 13
North of England +47 25 £50,000 +12.75% 11
North West +16 24 £50,000 -39.39% 9
Scotland -50 21 £100,000 -
East of England +13 19 £55,000 +40.13% 10
Midlands -22 14 £65,000 -35.00% 5
East Midlands -9 11 £65,000 +73.33% 2
South East -50 5 £47,500 -36.67% 12
West Midlands -32 3 £100,000 - 3
Yorkshire +57 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 (2.25%) nginx
2 6 (1.93%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.93%) Ethereum
3 4 (1.29%) 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 2 (0.64%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.64%) R3 Corda
1 2 (0.64%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 71 (22.83%) AWS
2 19 (6.11%) Azure
3 15 (4.82%) GCP
4 9 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (2.57%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.25%) GitHub
6 7 (2.25%) SaaS
7 6 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.93%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.29%) Discord
9 4 (1.29%) 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 (1.29%) 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 (4.18%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.29%) 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 (4.50%) Git
2 10 (3.22%) GitLab
3 6 (1.93%) webpack
4 5 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.61%) JIRA
4 5 (1.61%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.29%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.29%) 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 54 (17.36%) Finance
2 46 (14.79%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (4.18%) Automotive
5 11 (3.54%) Banking
6 9 (2.89%) Games
7 8 (2.57%) Front Office
8 5 (1.61%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.29%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.96%) Electronics
11 2 (0.64%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.64%) Law
11 2 (0.64%) Legal
12 1 (0.32%) Esports
Job Titles
1 184 (59.16%) Software Engineer
2 97 (31.19%) Senior
3 75 (24.12%) Senior Software Engineer
4 65 (20.90%) Developer
5 58 (18.65%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (18.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 36 (11.58%) Lead
7 26 (8.36%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.36%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (7.72%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 24 (7.72%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 23 (7.40%) Rust Engineer
10 17 (5.47%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (5.14%) Rust Developer
11 16 (5.14%) Rust Software Engineer
12 15 (4.82%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.18%) Python Engineer
13 13 (4.18%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.86%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.47%) React
2 21 (6.75%) Node.js
3 20 (6.43%) GraphQL
4 13 (4.18%) Laravel
5 10 (3.22%) AngularJS
5 10 (3.22%) Django
5 10 (3.22%) Smart Contracts
6 9 (2.89%) Spring
7 6 (1.93%) .NET
7 6 (1.93%) CSS
7 6 (1.93%) Flask
7 6 (1.93%) REST
7 6 (1.93%) Symfony
7 6 (1.93%) web3js
8 5 (1.61%) HTML
8 5 (1.61%) iOS SDK
8 5 (1.61%) Ruby on Rails
8 5 (1.61%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.29%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.29%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.04%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (10.61%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.72%) Legacy Code
4 20 (6.43%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.14%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.82%) Hedge funds
6 15 (4.82%) IoT
7 13 (4.18%) Algorithms
8 12 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (3.54%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.89%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.89%) Device Driver
10 9 (2.89%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.57%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.93%) NFT
12 6 (1.93%) Web3
13 5 (1.61%) Blog
13 5 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 145 (46.62%) Linux
2 54 (17.36%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (3.22%) Unix
4 7 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.93%) Alpine Linux
5 6 (1.93%) Android
6 5 (1.61%) Windows
7 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (71.70%) Software Engineering
2 65 (20.90%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (18.33%) Computer Science
4 47 (15.11%) DevOps
4 47 (15.11%) Open Source
5 36 (11.58%) Full Stack Development
6 32 (10.29%) Agile
6 32 (10.29%) CI/CD
7 30 (9.65%) Low Latency
8 27 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (7.40%) Test Automation
10 21 (6.75%) Data Management
11 19 (6.11%) Electronic Trading
11 19 (6.11%) Machine Learning
12 18 (5.79%) Artificial Intelligence
13 17 (5.47%) TDD
14 16 (5.14%) User Experience
15 15 (4.82%) Containerisation
15 15 (4.82%) Cryptography
15 15 (4.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 147 (47.27%) Python
2 136 (43.73%) C
3 91 (29.26%) C++
4 90 (28.94%) Go
5 89 (28.62%) Java
6 57 (18.33%) Embedded C
7 56 (18.01%) Bash
8 55 (17.68%) TypeScript
9 33 (10.61%) C#
10 26 (8.36%) JavaScript
11 25 (8.04%) SQL
12 23 (7.40%) PHP
13 20 (6.43%) Haskell
14 11 (3.54%) Solidity
15 10 (3.22%) Ruby
16 8 (2.57%) Clojure
16 8 (2.57%) F#
17 6 (1.93%) PowerShell
17 6 (1.93%) Scala
17 6 (1.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 50 (16.08%) Degree
3 18 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.14%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.50%) PhD
6 6 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.50%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.93%) 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 31 (9.97%) Docker
2 6 (1.93%) Ceph
2 6 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.29%) Firmware
4 3 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (23.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.47%) Terraform
3 15 (4.82%) Ansible
4 6 (1.93%) 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 (3.22%) Google
2 4 (1.29%) Foundry
2 4 (1.29%) 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