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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 605 734 550
Rank change year-on-year +129 -184 +209
Permanent jobs citing Rust 308 249 918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.25% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 0.57% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 267 188 129
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,986 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £101,875 £110,000 £137,500
90th Percentile £157,500 £200,000 £152,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £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 £107,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +152 282 £80,000 -1.54% 103
London +145 150 £96,000 -8.57% 74
UK excluding London +39 148 £57,500 -11.54% 33
Work from Home +97 125 £57,500 -28.13% 52
South West +38 69 £71,250 +9.62% 9
North of England +55 23 £50,000 +12.75% 9
Scotland -41 23 £100,000 - 2
North West +19 22 £50,000 -39.39% 7
East of England +30 18 £55,000 +29.41% 9
East Midlands -6 11 £65,000 +73.33%
Midlands -27 11 £65,000 -35.00%
South East -33 4 £53,750 -28.33% 5
Yorkshire +79 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 (1.95%) Ethereum
1 6 (1.95%) nginx
2 4 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.30%) OpenZeppelin
3 3 (0.97%) Apache
3 3 (0.97%) Confluence
4 2 (0.65%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.65%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 77 (25.00%) AWS
2 23 (7.47%) Azure
3 14 (4.55%) GCP
4 9 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (2.92%) GitHub
5 8 (2.60%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.27%) SaaS
7 6 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.95%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.30%) Discord
9 4 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.30%) Serverless
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.32%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.32%) Fastly
10 1 (0.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) IPFS
2 1 (0.32%) DNS
2 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.32%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) MQTT
2 1 (0.32%) Network Security
2 1 (0.32%) RS-232
2 1 (0.32%) SNMP
2 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.90%) NoSQL
1 12 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (1.62%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.97%) Apache Arrow
5 3 (0.97%) Big Data
5 3 (0.97%) MySQL
5 3 (0.97%) Parquet
5 3 (0.97%) Redis
6 1 (0.32%) ClickHouse
6 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.32%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (3.90%) Git
2 11 (3.57%) GitLab
3 7 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.27%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.95%) JIRA
4 6 (1.95%) webpack
5 4 (1.30%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.30%) Hardhat
5 4 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.97%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.65%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.32%) Phabricator
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (17.53%) Finance
2 43 (13.96%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (5.19%) Banking
5 12 (3.90%) Automotive
6 11 (3.57%) Games
7 7 (2.27%) Front Office
8 5 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.97%) Electronics
11 2 (0.65%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Esports
Job Titles
1 184 (59.74%) Software Engineer
2 99 (32.14%) Senior
3 75 (24.35%) Senior Software Engineer
4 59 (19.16%) Developer
5 58 (18.83%) Embedded Engineer
5 58 (18.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 34 (11.04%) Lead
7 26 (8.44%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (8.44%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 24 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (7.79%) Rust Engineer
9 22 (7.14%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 22 (7.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 17 (5.52%) Rust Developer
11 16 (5.19%) Rust Software Engineer
12 15 (4.87%) Lead Software Engineer
13 14 (4.55%) Python Engineer
14 13 (4.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 13 (4.22%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.90%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.64%) React
2 20 (6.49%) GraphQL
3 19 (6.17%) Node.js
4 13 (4.22%) Laravel
5 10 (3.25%) Django
6 9 (2.92%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.60%) .NET
7 8 (2.60%) Smart Contracts
8 7 (2.27%) Spring
9 6 (1.95%) CSS
9 6 (1.95%) Flask
9 6 (1.95%) REST
9 6 (1.95%) Symfony
10 5 (1.62%) HTML
10 5 (1.62%) iOS SDK
10 5 (1.62%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (1.62%) WebSockets
11 4 (1.30%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.30%) CakePHP
11 4 (1.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.53%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.14%) Legacy Code
4 18 (5.84%) Blockchain
5 16 (5.19%) Client/Server
6 15 (4.87%) IoT
7 14 (4.55%) Algorithms
7 14 (4.55%) Hedge funds
8 12 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (3.25%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.25%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.92%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.92%) Device Driver
11 8 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.62%) Blog
12 5 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.62%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.30%) PKI
13 4 (1.30%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 137 (44.48%) Linux
2 54 (17.53%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (2.92%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.60%) Android
4 8 (2.60%) Unix
5 6 (1.95%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.97%) Windows
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (72.40%) Software Engineering
2 65 (21.10%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (17.21%) Computer Science
4 47 (15.26%) DevOps
5 41 (13.31%) Full Stack Development
5 41 (13.31%) Open Source
6 33 (10.71%) CI/CD
7 31 (10.06%) Agile
8 28 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (8.77%) Low Latency
10 24 (7.79%) Test Automation
11 22 (7.14%) User Experience
12 21 (6.82%) Data Management
13 20 (6.49%) Machine Learning
14 19 (6.17%) UX Design
15 18 (5.84%) Electronic Trading
16 17 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence
16 17 (5.52%) Containerisation
17 16 (5.19%) Cryptography
18 15 (4.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 149 (48.38%) Python
2 131 (42.53%) C
3 91 (29.55%) Java
4 84 (27.27%) C++
5 83 (26.95%) Go
6 58 (18.83%) Embedded C
7 57 (18.51%) Bash
8 54 (17.53%) TypeScript
9 39 (12.66%) C#
10 30 (9.74%) JavaScript
11 26 (8.44%) Haskell
12 24 (7.79%) PHP
12 24 (7.79%) SQL
13 16 (5.19%) Ruby
14 14 (4.55%) Clojure
14 14 (4.55%) F#
15 8 (2.60%) Kotlin
16 7 (2.27%) Solidity
17 6 (1.95%) PowerShell
17 6 (1.95%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 48 (15.58%) Degree
3 17 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.52%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.87%) PhD
5 6 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.27%) MISRA
3 3 (0.97%) Def Stans
3 3 (0.97%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 28 (9.09%) Docker
2 6 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.30%) Ceph
4 3 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.97%) Firmware
5 2 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.19%) Terraform
3 14 (4.55%) Ansible
4 4 (1.30%) Knative
4 4 (1.30%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.65%) Grafana
6 1 (0.32%) Podman
6 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (2.60%) Google
2 4 (1.30%) Foundry
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.97%) Atlassian
3 3 (0.97%) Coverity
3 3 (0.97%) Oracle
4 2 (0.65%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.65%) QNX
5 1 (0.32%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.32%) Vertica