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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 394 428
Rank change year-on-year +224 +34 +90
Permanent jobs citing Rust 282 76 76
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.72% 0.37% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.75% 0.90% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 15 42 36
10th Percentile £51,000 £47,250 -
25th Percentile £69,375 £66,250 £32,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £100,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +37.93% -14.71%
75th Percentile £205,000 £116,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £230,000 £140,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +26.67% -18.92%

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 4,901 8,459 10,925
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.95% 41.53% 46.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,236 5,486 9,284
10th Percentile £35,250 £39,235 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £101,185
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 17 October 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 4 (1.42%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 223 (79.08%) AWS
2 221 (78.37%) Azure
3 178 (63.12%) GCP
4 39 (13.83%) Amazon EKS
4 39 (13.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (0.71%) GitHub
6 1 (0.35%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
1 2 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 217 (76.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 40 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (2.13%) Finance
4 4 (1.42%) Banking
4 4 (1.42%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.71%) Electronics
5 2 (0.71%) Law
6 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.35%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (0.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 181 (64.18%) Senior
2 178 (63.12%) Senior Software Engineer
2 178 (63.12%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.60%) Developer
4 40 (14.18%) Software Developer
5 8 (2.84%) Rust Engineer
6 3 (1.06%) Rust Developer
7 2 (0.71%) Blockchain Engineer
7 2 (0.71%) Security Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) Applications Developer
8 1 (0.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (0.35%) Java Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) Quantitative Developer
8 1 (0.35%) Senior Applications Developer
8 1 (0.35%) Senior Developer
8 1 (0.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (0.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) Senior Windows Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) Systems Developer
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (76.95%) .NET
1 217 (76.95%) Node.js
2 49 (17.38%) HTML
3 39 (13.83%) Pandas
4 6 (2.13%) web3js
5 4 (1.42%) Smart Contracts
6 2 (0.71%) DPDK
6 2 (0.71%) Electron
6 2 (0.71%) React
7 1 (0.35%) WebKit
7 1 (0.35%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 217 (76.95%) Cyberattack
2 178 (63.12%) Linux Command Line
2 178 (63.12%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.84%) Blockchain
4 6 (2.13%) Web3
5 5 (1.77%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.35%) FPGA
7 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.35%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 222 (78.72%) Linux
2 40 (14.18%) Android
3 2 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (80.50%) Machine Learning
2 224 (79.43%) Software Engineering
3 217 (76.95%) Agile
4 180 (63.83%) Microservices
5 179 (63.48%) Mentoring
6 178 (63.12%) Cloud Security
6 178 (63.12%) Data Engineering
6 178 (63.12%) Scrum
6 178 (63.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 178 (63.12%) User Experience
7 54 (19.15%) Computer Science
8 49 (17.38%) AI
8 49 (17.38%) Data Privacy
9 43 (15.25%) Design Patterns
10 42 (14.89%) Mathematics
11 41 (14.54%) CI/CD
12 39 (13.83%) Android Development
12 39 (13.83%) Collaborative Working
12 39 (13.83%) Containerisation
12 39 (13.83%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 274 (97.16%) C++
2 269 (95.39%) JavaScript
3 267 (94.68%) Java
3 267 (94.68%) Python
4 223 (79.08%) Go
5 56 (19.86%) TypeScript
6 54 (19.15%) C
7 49 (17.38%) C#
7 49 (17.38%) Dart
7 49 (17.38%) MATLAB
7 49 (17.38%) PHP
7 49 (17.38%) R
7 49 (17.38%) Ruby
7 49 (17.38%) SQL
8 2 (0.71%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 217 (76.95%) DV Cleared
1 217 (76.95%) Security Cleared
2 178 (63.12%) AWS Certification
2 178 (63.12%) AWS Certified Developer
2 178 (63.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 56 (19.86%) Degree
4 54 (19.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.71%) PhD
System Software
1 41 (14.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (13.83%) Ansible
1 39 (13.83%) Kubernetes
1 39 (13.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (0.71%) Solarflare