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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 375 416
Rank change year-on-year +55 +41 +139
Permanent jobs citing Rust 64 82 85
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 1.00% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 14 43 40
10th Percentile £67,625 £65,250 £32,092
25th Percentile £107,500 £79,375 £34,273
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +40.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £230,000 £130,000 £91,934
90th Percentile - £145,000 £123,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +18.75% -15.79%

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 4,493 8,173 10,423
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.59% 41.53% 47.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,224 5,168 8,776
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% - +1.56%

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 9 November 2025.

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 (9.38%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.50%) AWS
2 6 (9.38%) Azure
3 2 (3.13%) GitHub
4 1 (1.56%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.56%) webpack
General
1 8 (12.50%) Finance
2 6 (9.38%) Banking
3 4 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Digital Health
4 1 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (1.56%) Electronics
4 1 (1.56%) Front Office
4 1 (1.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Rust Engineer
2 4 (6.25%) Developer
3 3 (4.69%) Senior
4 2 (3.13%) Blockchain Engineer
4 2 (3.13%) Rust Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Applications Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (1.56%) Quantitative Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (1.56%) Senior Windows Engineer
5 1 (1.56%) Software Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Systems Developer
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (76.56%) HTML
2 8 (12.50%) web3js
3 6 (9.38%) Smart Contracts
4 2 (3.13%) DPDK
5 1 (1.56%) Electron
5 1 (1.56%) React
5 1 (1.56%) WebKit
5 1 (1.56%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Blockchain
1 8 (12.50%) Web3
2 7 (10.94%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.56%) FPGA
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Android
2 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.56%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (87.50%) Computer Science
2 49 (76.56%) AI
2 49 (76.56%) Data Privacy
2 49 (76.56%) Machine Learning
3 9 (14.06%) Low Latency
3 9 (14.06%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 7 (10.94%) DeFi
6 6 (9.38%) Design Patterns
6 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (9.38%) Workflow
7 4 (6.25%) Memory Management
8 3 (4.69%) Open Source
8 3 (4.69%) Open Source Development
9 2 (3.13%) Clean Code
9 2 (3.13%) Concurrent Programming
9 2 (3.13%) Event-Driven
9 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (3.13%) Microservices
9 2 (3.13%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 57 (89.06%) TypeScript
2 54 (84.38%) C++
3 52 (81.25%) C
4 51 (79.69%) JavaScript
5 50 (78.13%) Java
5 50 (78.13%) Python
6 49 (76.56%) C#
6 49 (76.56%) Dart
6 49 (76.56%) MATLAB
6 49 (76.56%) PHP
6 49 (76.56%) R
6 49 (76.56%) Ruby
6 49 (76.56%) SQL
7 6 (9.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 56 (87.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 56 (87.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (3.13%) Solarflare