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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 368 385
Rank change year-on-year +27 +17 +215
Permanent jobs citing Rust 22 79 85
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.54% 1.10% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21 44 37
10th Percentile £90,000 £65,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £105,000 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +25.63% +1.30%
75th Percentile £230,000 £130,000 £117,500
90th Percentile - £145,000 £157,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -

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 4,110 7,185 9,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.26% 42.66% 46.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,113 4,533 8,195
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -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 3 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 (31.82%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Rust Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Rust Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Rust Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Blockchain Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Junior
4 2 (9.09%) Junior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Junior Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Quantitative Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) web3js
2 7 (31.82%) Smart Contracts
3 2 (9.09%) DPDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Blockchain
1 9 (40.91%) Web3
2 8 (36.36%) Hedge funds
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) FPGA
4 1 (4.55%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Software Engineering
2 13 (59.09%) Low Latency
3 10 (45.45%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 8 (36.36%) DeFi
4 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (31.82%) Computer Science
5 7 (31.82%) Design Patterns
5 7 (31.82%) Workflow
6 5 (22.73%) High-Frequency Trading
7 4 (18.18%) AI
7 4 (18.18%) Memory Management
8 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 3 (13.64%) Clean Code
8 3 (13.64%) Fraud Detection
8 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
9 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (9.09%) Microservices
9 2 (9.09%) Multithreading
9 2 (9.09%) Open Source
9 2 (9.09%) Open Source Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Go
2 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
3 6 (27.27%) C++
4 2 (9.09%) C
5 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 7 (31.82%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Solarflare