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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 386 417
Rank change year-on-year +190 +31 +152
Permanent jobs citing Rust 241 79 82
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.48% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.99% 0.95% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 15 40 37
10th Percentile £68,500 £65,000 -
25th Percentile £90,625 £80,313 £32,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +40.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £230,000 £130,000 £91,934
90th Percentile - £145,000 £121,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +18.75% -13.51%

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 4,833 8,336 10,541
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.74% 41.84% 47.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,237 5,300 8,887
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 £83,750 £85,000 £83,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +3.17%

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 2 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 (2.49%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 184 (76.35%) AWS
2 182 (75.52%) Azure
3 176 (73.03%) GCP
4 2 (0.83%) GitHub
5 1 (0.41%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (0.83%) CircleCI
1 2 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 176 (73.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (3.32%) Finance
3 6 (2.49%) Banking
4 4 (1.66%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.83%) Electronics
5 2 (0.83%) Law
6 1 (0.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.41%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.41%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (0.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 179 (74.27%) Senior
2 176 (73.03%) Senior Software Engineer
2 176 (73.03%) Software Engineer
3 10 (4.15%) Rust Engineer
4 5 (2.07%) Developer
5 3 (1.24%) Rust Developer
6 2 (0.83%) Blockchain Engineer
7 1 (0.41%) Applications Developer
7 1 (0.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (0.41%) Java Engineer
7 1 (0.41%) Quantitative Developer
7 1 (0.41%) Senior Applications Developer
7 1 (0.41%) Senior Developer
7 1 (0.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (0.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (0.41%) Senior Windows Engineer
7 1 (0.41%) Software Developer
7 1 (0.41%) Systems Developer
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (73.03%) .NET
1 176 (73.03%) Node.js
2 49 (20.33%) HTML
3 8 (3.32%) web3js
4 6 (2.49%) Smart Contracts
5 2 (0.83%) DPDK
5 2 (0.83%) Electron
5 2 (0.83%) React
6 1 (0.41%) WebKit
6 1 (0.41%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 176 (73.03%) Cyberattack
1 176 (73.03%) Linux Command Line
1 176 (73.03%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.32%) Blockchain
2 8 (3.32%) Web3
3 7 (2.90%) Hedge funds
4 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.41%) FPGA
5 1 (0.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.41%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 181 (75.10%) Linux
2 2 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (93.36%) Machine Learning
2 185 (76.76%) Software Engineering
3 178 (73.86%) Microservices
4 177 (73.44%) Mentoring
5 176 (73.03%) Agile
5 176 (73.03%) Cloud Security
5 176 (73.03%) Data Engineering
5 176 (73.03%) Scrum
5 176 (73.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 176 (73.03%) User Experience
6 56 (23.24%) Computer Science
7 49 (20.33%) AI
7 49 (20.33%) Data Privacy
8 9 (3.73%) Low Latency
8 9 (3.73%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 7 (2.90%) DeFi
10 6 (2.49%) Design Patterns
10 6 (2.49%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (2.49%) Workflow
11 4 (1.66%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 231 (95.85%) C++
2 228 (94.61%) JavaScript
3 226 (93.78%) Java
3 226 (93.78%) Python
4 182 (75.52%) Go
5 58 (24.07%) TypeScript
6 52 (21.58%) C
7 49 (20.33%) C#
7 49 (20.33%) Dart
7 49 (20.33%) MATLAB
7 49 (20.33%) PHP
7 49 (20.33%) R
7 49 (20.33%) Ruby
7 49 (20.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 176 (73.03%) AWS Certification
1 176 (73.03%) AWS Certified Developer
1 176 (73.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 176 (73.03%) DV Cleared
1 176 (73.03%) Security Cleared
2 56 (23.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 56 (23.24%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (0.83%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (0.83%) Solarflare