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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 354 407
Rank change year-on-year +17 +53 +195
Permanent jobs citing Rust 39 77 129
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.25% 0.48% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 1.09% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 34 42 79
10th Percentile - £65,000 £40,000
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 £124,375 £126,250 £117,500
90th Percentile £230,000 £145,000 £172,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +15.15% -8.33%

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 4,291 7,063 12,412
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.18% 43.76% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 4,423 10,749
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £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 1 February 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 (17.95%) Ethereum
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) GCP
3 3 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Arrow
1 1 (2.56%) Parquet
1 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Banking
3 4 (10.26%) Games
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Aviation
6 1 (2.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Rust Engineer
2 15 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Developer
3 10 (25.64%) Rust Developer
3 10 (25.64%) Senior
4 9 (23.08%) Rust Software Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Junior
6 5 (12.82%) Lead
6 5 (12.82%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Junior Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Junior Software Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
8 3 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) C++ Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Junior Software Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Senior C++ Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) web3js
2 7 (17.95%) Smart Contracts
3 2 (5.13%) DPDK
4 1 (2.56%) Flutter
4 1 (2.56%) gRPC
4 1 (2.56%) Kafka
4 1 (2.56%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Blockchain
1 9 (23.08%) Web3
2 8 (20.51%) Hedge funds
3 6 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (10.26%) Sports Betting
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.56%) FPGA
6 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.56%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) Software Engineering
2 19 (48.72%) Low Latency
3 12 (30.77%) High-Frequency Trading
4 11 (28.21%) Computer Science
5 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
5 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (25.64%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 8 (20.51%) AI
6 8 (20.51%) DeFi
6 8 (20.51%) Observability
7 7 (17.95%) Design Patterns
7 7 (17.95%) Workflow
8 6 (15.38%) DevOps
8 6 (15.38%) Fraud Detection
8 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
9 5 (12.82%) Mathematics
10 4 (10.26%) Analytics
10 4 (10.26%) Memory Management
10 4 (10.26%) Physics
10 4 (10.26%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Go
2 14 (35.90%) C++
3 8 (20.51%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.82%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) C
7 1 (2.56%) Dart
7 1 (2.56%) Python
7 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Degree
2 7 (17.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Master's Degree
3 4 (10.26%) PhD
4 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Grafana
1 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Solarflare