Hybrid/Remote Rust Job Trends

Rust
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Rust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 346 418
Rank change year-on-year +1 +72 +179
Permanent jobs citing Rust 49 71 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.48% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 1.07% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 42 36 90
10th Percentile £85,000 £58,750 -
25th Percentile £90,000 £76,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £230,000 £160,000 £172,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £83,038
% change year-on-year +5.26% +14.41% -7.74%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Rust falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,415 6,645 12,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.85% 44.90% 44.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,226 4,412 11,061
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Rust and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Rust job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Rust
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Rust over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Rust salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Rust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.24%) Ethereum
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) AWS
2 14 (28.57%) Azure
3 7 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) Apache Arrow
1 1 (2.04%) Parquet
1 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
1 5 (10.20%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) LabVIEW
2 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.04%) Subversion
General
1 12 (24.49%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Banking
2 6 (12.24%) Games
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Aviation
4 1 (2.04%) Front Office
4 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (44.90%) Rust Engineer
1 22 (44.90%) Software Engineer
2 14 (28.57%) Rust Software Engineer
3 12 (24.49%) Senior
4 11 (22.45%) Developer
4 11 (22.45%) Junior
4 11 (22.45%) Rust Developer
5 7 (14.29%) Junior Software Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Lead
6 5 (10.20%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Junior Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Junior Software Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.12%) C++ Developer
8 3 (6.12%) C++ Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior C++ Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) web3js
2 6 (12.24%) Smart Contracts
3 4 (8.16%) Kafka
4 1 (2.04%) Flutter
4 1 (2.04%) gRPC
4 1 (2.04%) Middleware
4 1 (2.04%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Blockchain
1 8 (16.33%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Web3
2 7 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 6 (12.24%) Sports Betting
4 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.04%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 18 (36.73%) High-Frequency Trading
2 18 (36.73%) Low Latency
3 15 (30.61%) CI/CD
4 14 (28.57%) Observability
5 13 (26.53%) Computer Science
6 9 (18.37%) DevOps
6 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.33%) AI
8 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (14.29%) DeFi
8 7 (14.29%) Mathematics
8 7 (14.29%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 6 (12.24%) Analytics
9 6 (12.24%) Containerisation
9 6 (12.24%) Data Munging
9 6 (12.24%) Design Patterns
9 6 (12.24%) Fraud Detection
9 6 (12.24%) Machine Learning
9 6 (12.24%) Market Making
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) Go
2 15 (30.61%) C++
3 7 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 6 (12.24%) C#
4 6 (12.24%) Java
4 6 (12.24%) Python
5 1 (2.04%) Dart
5 1 (2.04%) Perl
5 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (38.78%) Degree
2 7 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 6 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (12.24%) PhD
3 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) QA
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.04%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Grafana
1 8 (16.33%) Prometheus
2 7 (14.29%) Terraform
3 5 (10.20%) Ansible
3 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (2.04%) Tenable
1 1 (2.04%) VMware