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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 363 413
Rank change year-on-year +21 +50 +189
Permanent jobs citing Rust 38 77 121
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.24% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.89% 1.08% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 33 42 71
10th Percentile - £65,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £75,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £125,000 £126,250 £118,750
90th Percentile £230,000 £145,000 £172,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year +5.26% +13.67% -3.10%

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 4,290 7,159 11,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.21% 43.85% 45.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,183 4,488 10,167
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,342
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £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 29 January 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 7 (18.42%) Ethereum
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) AWS
2 9 (23.68%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) GitHub
4 2 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Arrow
1 1 (2.63%) Parquet
1 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) CircleCI
General
1 13 (34.21%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Games
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Aviation
6 1 (2.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Rust Engineer
2 15 (39.47%) Software Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) Developer
3 10 (26.32%) Rust Developer
3 10 (26.32%) Senior
4 9 (23.68%) Rust Software Engineer
5 6 (15.79%) Junior
6 5 (13.16%) Lead
6 5 (13.16%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) Junior Developer
7 4 (10.53%) Junior Software Developer
7 4 (10.53%) Software Developer
8 3 (7.89%) C++ Software Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Blockchain Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) C++ Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Junior Software Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Senior C++ Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) web3js
2 7 (18.42%) Smart Contracts
3 2 (5.26%) DPDK
4 1 (2.63%) Flutter
4 1 (2.63%) gRPC
4 1 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Blockchain
1 9 (23.68%) Web3
2 8 (21.05%) Hedge funds
3 6 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (10.53%) Sports Betting
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.63%) FPGA
6 1 (2.63%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (76.32%) Software Engineering
2 19 (50.00%) Low Latency
3 12 (31.58%) High-Frequency Trading
4 11 (28.95%) Computer Science
5 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (26.32%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
7 8 (21.05%) AI
7 8 (21.05%) DeFi
8 7 (18.42%) Design Patterns
8 7 (18.42%) Observability
8 7 (18.42%) Workflow
9 6 (15.79%) DevOps
9 6 (15.79%) Fraud Detection
9 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
10 5 (13.16%) Mathematics
11 4 (10.53%) Data Munging
11 4 (10.53%) Memory Management
11 4 (10.53%) Physics
11 4 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) Go
2 14 (36.84%) C++
3 8 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.16%) Java
5 4 (10.53%) C#
6 2 (5.26%) C
7 1 (2.63%) Dart
7 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Degree
2 7 (18.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 4 (10.53%) PhD
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Grafana
1 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) Solarflare