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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 370 390
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 +229
Permanent jobs citing Rust 14 89 86
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.092% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% 1.12% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13 49 38
10th Percentile £101,500 £65,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £107,500 £77,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £230,000 £105,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +119.05% +55.56% -20.59%
75th Percentile - £130,000 £91,934
90th Percentile - £145,000 £124,500
UK median annual salary £102,500 £95,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year +7.89% +13.67% -14.28%

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 4,123 7,959 9,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.96% 42.32% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,162 5,149 8,179
10th Percentile £35,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £100,837
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 7 December 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 7 (50.00%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Rust Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Rust Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Blockchain Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) web3js
2 7 (50.00%) Smart Contracts
3 2 (14.29%) DPDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Blockchain
1 9 (64.29%) Web3
2 8 (57.14%) Hedge funds
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (7.14%) FPGA
4 1 (7.14%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Low Latency
1 10 (71.43%) Ultra-Low Latency
2 8 (57.14%) DeFi
3 7 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) Workflow
4 4 (28.57%) Memory Management
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 2 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 2 (14.29%) Fintech
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 2 (14.29%) Open Source
5 2 (14.29%) Open Source Development
6 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Go
1 7 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (21.43%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) C
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Solarflare