Rust Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Rust
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Rust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Rust over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 457 567
Rank change year-on-year +214 +110 -132
Permanent jobs citing Rust 202 126 95
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.23% 0.37% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.19% 0.91% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26 117 72
10th Percentile £48,750 - £43,750
25th Percentile £55,625 £45,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £112,500 £80,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £157,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -4.48%

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 6,337 13,800 20,832
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.62% 40.76% 49.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,862 11,439 15,333
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Rust.

Rust salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Rust
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Rust over the 6 months to 7 May 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 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.50%) CMS
1 1 (0.50%) Ethereum
1 1 (0.50%) nginx
1 1 (0.50%) Solana
Cloud Services
1 170 (84.16%) AWS
2 164 (81.19%) Azure
3 117 (57.92%) GCP
4 49 (24.26%) Amazon EKS
4 49 (24.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (0.99%) GitHub
5 2 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.50%) CloudAMQP
6 1 (0.50%) Figma
6 1 (0.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (0.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Broadband
1 1 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (24.26%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.99%) Redis
4 1 (0.50%) Big Data
4 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.50%) GIS
4 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.50%) MySQL
4 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.49%) GitLab
2 2 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) Git
3 1 (0.50%) PetaLinux
General
1 167 (82.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 49 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.43%) Finance
4 8 (3.96%) Law
5 6 (2.97%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.49%) Banking
7 2 (0.99%) Automotive
7 2 (0.99%) Military
8 1 (0.50%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.50%) Legal
8 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.50%) Marketing
8 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 135 (66.83%) Software Engineer
2 126 (62.38%) Senior
3 120 (59.41%) Senior Software Engineer
4 55 (27.23%) Developer
5 50 (24.75%) Software Developer
6 8 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (3.96%) Principal Software Engineer
7 6 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (2.97%) Gen AI Engineer
7 6 (2.97%) Gen AI Software Engineer
8 4 (1.98%) Python Engineer
8 4 (1.98%) Security Engineer
9 3 (1.49%) Python Software Engineer
10 2 (0.99%) C Software Engineer
10 2 (0.99%) C++ Software Engineer
10 2 (0.99%) Java Engineer
10 2 (0.99%) Research Engineer
10 2 (0.99%) Senior Developer
10 2 (0.99%) Senior Java Engineer
10 2 (0.99%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (83.17%) Node.js
2 165 (81.68%) .NET
3 49 (24.26%) Pandas
4 7 (3.47%) REST
5 6 (2.97%) Flutter
6 5 (2.48%) React
7 2 (0.99%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.99%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.99%) gRPC
7 2 (0.99%) Kafka
7 2 (0.99%) Next.js
7 2 (0.99%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (0.99%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.50%) Django
8 1 (0.50%) Eleventy
8 1 (0.50%) jQuery
8 1 (0.50%) JSON
8 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.50%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 164 (81.19%) Cyberattack
2 115 (56.93%) Linux Command Line
2 115 (56.93%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.97%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.48%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.99%) IoT
7 1 (0.50%) Bitcoin
7 1 (0.50%) Blog
7 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.50%) FPGA
7 1 (0.50%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.50%) Verilog
7 1 (0.50%) VHDL
7 1 (0.50%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 171 (84.65%) Linux
2 50 (24.75%) Android
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (93.56%) Software Engineering
2 168 (83.17%) Agile
3 123 (60.89%) Machine Learning
3 123 (60.89%) Microservices
4 121 (59.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 119 (58.91%) Mentoring
6 117 (57.92%) User Experience
7 115 (56.93%) Cloud Security
7 115 (56.93%) Data Engineering
7 115 (56.93%) Scrum
8 61 (30.20%) CI/CD
9 56 (27.72%) Collaborative Working
10 53 (26.24%) Mathematics
11 51 (25.25%) OOP
12 50 (24.75%) Containerisation
13 49 (24.26%) Design Patterns
13 49 (24.26%) Line Management
13 49 (24.26%) OO
13 49 (24.26%) Secure Coding
13 49 (24.26%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 191 (94.55%) Python
2 183 (90.59%) C++
3 182 (90.10%) Go
4 170 (84.16%) Java
5 168 (83.17%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.91%) C
7 7 (3.47%) Ruby
7 7 (3.47%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.97%) Clojure
8 6 (2.97%) Elixir
8 6 (2.97%) Perl
8 6 (2.97%) Scala
9 3 (1.49%) Solidity
9 3 (1.49%) SQL
10 1 (0.50%) C#
10 1 (0.50%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 164 (81.19%) DV Cleared
1 164 (81.19%) Security Cleared
2 115 (56.93%) AWS Certification
2 115 (56.93%) AWS Certified Developer
2 115 (56.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (4.95%) Degree
4 4 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 59 (29.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (34.16%) Kubernetes
2 57 (28.22%) Terraform
3 51 (25.25%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (0.99%) Google
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.50%) Xilinx