The Rust Hiring Report Q3 2026

Key Findings

Job ads open on 14 September 2026. Each finding links to the chart behind it.

Contents

Foreword

Julien Truffaut · Co-Founder

Backend engineer with more than 10 years of experience, from start-ups to tech giants like Amazon.

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Alex Garella · Founder

Software engineer with years of experience at startups and in recruiting for niche software engineering roles.

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How many Rust jobs are advertised?

On 14 September 2026 we counted 754 open job ads that require Rust, at 311 companies. In total, 2,911 job ads mention Rust.

We only count job ads where Rust is genuinely needed: the ad asks for Rust experience, or the work itself is written in Rust. Plenty of ads mention Rust as one option among several, or as a nice-to-have. Counting those too would have inflated the market almost fourfold, from 754 jobs to 2,911.

Which industries are hiring Rust engineers?

Defense, aerospace & space companies post the most Rust jobs (169, or 22.4%). Crypto & web3 has the most companies hiring (60).

Defense, aerospace and space leads, with nearly one in four Rust job ads (169). Crypto and web3 has the most companies hiring (60), averaging fewer than two jobs each. AI and machine learning is second by number of jobs (120). Leave out defense and crypto, and about 65% of Rust jobs remain.

Which companies post the most Rust jobs?

Anduril Industries (49), Cloudflare (22), K2 Space (18), NVIDIA (16) and fab2 (12) posted the most Rust job ads.

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Is Rust hiring concentrated in a few companies?

No. More than half of the companies hiring (173 of 311) have just one Rust job ad, and the ten biggest posters account for only 21.9% of ads.

More than half of the companies hiring (173 of 311) have just one Rust job ad. The ten biggest posters account for only 165 of 754 ads (22%), so most Rust jobs are at companies outside the best-known names.

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Which companies are most focused on Rust?

At Nexus Laboratories and Polars, 3 of every 4 open job ads require Rust, the highest share of any company with at least three Rust jobs.

Anduril posts the most Rust job ads (49), but they're a small slice of its 2,000+ openings. At Polars and Nexus Laboratories, 3 of every 4 open job ads require Rust.

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Where are Rust jobs, and how many are remote?

63.9% of Rust job ads that list a location include the US. Of ads that state a working setup, 35.6% are fully remote, and outside defense remote is the most common setup.

Nearly two thirds of Rust job ads that list a location include the US (457 of 715). About a third of ads that state a working setup are fully remote. Defense is the exception: fewer than one in ten of its ads are remote. Everywhere else, remote is the most common setup.

What do Rust job ads pay?

In the US, senior Rust job ads advertise a typical base salary of $205,000, and staff-level ads $230,000.

These are the base salaries employers advertise. US figures lead because that's where salaries are published: 336 US Rust job ads include a range, against 27 in Europe.

336 of 443 US Rust job ads (75.8%) show a salary range. In states that require one, the typical range runs $170,000–$240,000; elsewhere it runs $159,000–$249,000.

Europe is far less open about pay: only 27 of 157 European Rust job ads show a salary range. Here are the 19 annual salary ranges among them.

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What seniority do Rust employers want?

Mostly senior. 80.9% of Rust job ads that state a level want a senior or staff engineer, and 3.4% are for juniors.

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How long do Rust job ads stay open?

Longer than most. 67.5% of Rust job ads that appeared 1 July–16 July 2026 were still advertised six weeks later, compared with 57.7% of other job ads that appeared at the same time.

Rust job ads stay advertised longer than most. Of 206 Rust job ads that appeared in the first half of July, two in three (67.5%) were still advertised six weeks later, compared with 57.7% of other job ads that appeared at the same time.

Rust ads also stayed up longer than Go ads (62.3%) and Scala ads (53.1%).

How does Rust compare with Go and Scala?

Go has far more job ads (2,588) than Rust (754) or Scala (354). Rust ads stayed advertised the longest: 67.5% after six weeks, against 62.3% for Go and 53.1% for Scala.

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What We'll Watch Next

This is our first edition. Here's what we'll be tracking in the next one.

How did we build this report?

Every day we collect job ads from 1,753 company careers pages and sort every ad that mentions Rust. We count only the ads where Rust is genuinely needed, and use CVs from our Talent Network for the seniority comparison.

Where the data comes from

We go straight to the source: company careers pages on platforms such as Workday, Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever. We don't use job aggregators or our own job board. We've tracked them every day since 10 June 2026. For the seniority comparison, we also use CVs from our Talent Network.

What counts as a Rust job

Lots of job ads mention Rust without needing it. We sort every ad that mentions Rust into three groups, and only count the first:

That's why this report counts 754 Rust jobs rather than 2,911. A "required" ad either asks for Rust experience or describes work written in Rust.

What this report doesn't cover

No job-market study sees everything. We track company careers pages we can read directly, so companies that hire only through LinkedIn, referrals or careers sites that block automated access aren't included. That leaves out some of the largest Rust employers, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Meta.

We also follow 2,940 more companies with Rust work that had no Rust job ad we could count this time: 1,770 have no careers page we can read, and 1,170 had no current Rust job ad. Treat 754 as a count of Rust jobs on public careers pages, not every Rust job in the world.

warning: this job description mentions Rust but does not require it
  --> senior-backend-engineer, one of 1,605 like it:14
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14 |    Strong experience in Go, Rust or C++
   |                             ^^^^ one acceptable option among three
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   = note: 1,605 of the 2,911 open job descriptions that mention Rust look like this
   = note: a further 551 mention it only in passing
   = note: 1 carries no classification and is counted nowhere

Data and citation

Every figure in this report is available as JSON. You're welcome to quote it with a link back. Suggested citation:

Rust Jobs, "The Rust Hiring Report Q3 2026", snapshot 2026-09-14, https://rustjobs.dev/hiring-report-q3-2026

Updates and corrections

Last updated 14 September 2026. Spotted something wrong? Email info@RustJobs.dev. Once the report is published, we'll correct it here and note the date of the change.

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