Rust

Rust builds and operates production software; the technology name is only the entry point.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $5,950 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $6,129 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 47 Last 3 months
Applications per job 10.25 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Exact language
$4K–$4.05K language median band

Hiring Verify production ownership, system constraints, testing, and incident experience.

Candidate Show shipped systems, scale, and decisions—not a list of frameworks.

Data DOU groups Rust, Go, and Java in the reported median band.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 36 respondents
Exact match
Lower quartile$3650
Median$5000
Upper quartile$8000
Year over year +2.0%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Rust as the main programming language · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Rust 20 $4599–$6014 PostgreSQL 6 $3146–$4555 C/C++ 5 $2644–$4856 Distributed Systems 5 $5517–$6504 CI/CD 3 $3049–$4765 Ethereum 3 $8050–$8194 Linux 3 $2021–$3809 Go 2 $4794–$6053 Kubernetes 2 $3848–$5569 Network Administration 2 $1913–$3554 Observability 2 $4235–$6607 Operating Systems 2 $1750–$2025 Python 2 $3074–$4700 Systems Programming 2 $7137–$7642 TCP/IP 2 $1494–$2966 UDP 2 $2541–$3954 WebSocket 2 $2404–$3476

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Developer salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·