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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 419 451
Rank change year-on-year +244 +32 +53
Permanent jobs citing Rust 290 78 65
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.79% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.74% 0.87% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12 54 41
10th Percentile £50,250 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £61,875 £47,250 £32,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -10.45%
75th Percentile £121,250 £112,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £219,500 £140,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +26.67% -11.76%

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 5,050 8,946 11,889
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.20% 38.59% 47.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,402 6,207 10,283
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Rust
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Rust trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Rust
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Rust.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Rust

Rust
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Rust over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Rust salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.69%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 232 (80.00%) AWS
2 229 (78.97%) Azure
3 178 (61.38%) GCP
4 49 (16.90%) Amazon EKS
4 49 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (0.69%) GitHub
6 1 (0.34%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.90%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
1 2 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 228 (78.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 49 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (2.41%) Finance
4 3 (1.03%) Banking
5 2 (0.69%) Electronics
5 2 (0.69%) Law
5 2 (0.69%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.34%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 182 (62.76%) Senior
2 178 (61.38%) Senior Software Engineer
2 178 (61.38%) Software Engineer
3 53 (18.28%) Developer
4 50 (17.24%) Software Developer
5 4 (1.38%) Rust Engineer
5 4 (1.38%) Security Engineer
6 2 (0.69%) Java Engineer
6 2 (0.69%) Research Engineer
6 2 (0.69%) Rust Developer
7 1 (0.34%) Applications Developer
7 1 (0.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (0.34%) Senior Applications Developer
7 1 (0.34%) Senior Developer
7 1 (0.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (0.34%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) Senior Windows Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) Systems Developer
7 1 (0.34%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (78.28%) .NET
1 227 (78.28%) Node.js
2 49 (16.90%) HTML
2 49 (16.90%) Pandas
3 2 (0.69%) DPDK
3 2 (0.69%) Electron
3 2 (0.69%) React
3 2 (0.69%) Smart Contracts
3 2 (0.69%) web3js
4 1 (0.34%) gRPC
4 1 (0.34%) Kafka
4 1 (0.34%) WebKit
4 1 (0.34%) WebRTC
4 1 (0.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 227 (78.28%) Cyberattack
2 178 (61.38%) Linux Command Line
2 178 (61.38%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (1.38%) Blockchain
4 2 (0.69%) Hedge funds
4 2 (0.69%) Web3
5 1 (0.34%) FPGA
5 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 232 (80.00%) Linux
2 50 (17.24%) Android
3 2 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 228 (78.62%) Agile
2 228 (78.62%) Machine Learning
3 180 (62.07%) Microservices
4 179 (61.72%) Mentoring
5 178 (61.38%) Cloud Security
5 178 (61.38%) Data Engineering
5 178 (61.38%) Scrum
5 178 (61.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 178 (61.38%) User Experience
6 53 (18.28%) Mathematics
7 52 (17.93%) Computer Science
8 51 (17.59%) CI/CD
8 51 (17.59%) Design Patterns
9 50 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
10 49 (16.90%) Kanban
10 49 (16.90%) OO
10 49 (16.90%) OOP
10 49 (16.90%) OWASP
10 49 (16.90%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 285 (98.28%) C++
2 279 (96.21%) JavaScript
3 278 (95.86%) Java
3 278 (95.86%) Python
4 233 (80.34%) Go
5 56 (19.31%) C
6 54 (18.62%) TypeScript
7 49 (16.90%) C#
7 49 (16.90%) Dart
7 49 (16.90%) MATLAB
7 49 (16.90%) PHP
7 49 (16.90%) R
7 49 (16.90%) Ruby
7 49 (16.90%) SQL
8 2 (0.69%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 227 (78.28%) DV Cleared
1 227 (78.28%) Security Cleared
2 178 (61.38%) AWS Certification
2 178 (61.38%) AWS Certified Developer
2 178 (61.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 56 (19.31%) Degree
4 52 (17.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.38%) PhD
System Software
1 52 (17.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 49 (16.90%) Ansible
2 49 (16.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (0.69%) Solarflare