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 $6,000 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $6,785 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 33 Last 3 months
Applications per job 12.59 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 17 $4544–$5918 SQL 4 $2555–$3940 C/C++ 3 $2439–$4771 Distributed Systems 3 $5032–$6376 Network Administration 3 $2127–$3650 Performance Optimization 3 $3091–$4486 Performance Profiling 3 $6363–$8000 PostgreSQL 3 $3050–$4617 Python 3 $2955–$4687 API 2 $2560–$3928 Async Programming 2 $5588–$6166 AWS 2 $3625–$5292 Backend Development 2 $3989–$5433 Blockchain 2 $4640–$5334 Concurrency 2 $5001–$5333 Cryptography 2 $2324–$4119 Earned Value Management 2 $7068–$8382 Ethereum 2 $8604–$8903 Go 2 $4671–$5995 Hardware Security Modules 2 $3000–$4000 Java 2 $4424–$4937 Kubernetes 2 $3619–$5424 Low-latency systems 2 $8090–$15440 Manual QA 2 $1389–$2796 Multithreading 2 $4775–$5904 PKCS#11 2 $3000–$4000 Systems Programming 2 $6500–$7214

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Developer salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·