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 $6,381 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $6,862 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 35 Last 3 months
Applications per job 10.76 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 19 $4624–$6021 C/C++ 4 $2440–$4770 API 3 $2499–$3902 Distributed Systems 3 $5000–$6429 Network Administration 3 $2117–$3665 Performance Optimization 3 $3017–$4469 Performance Profiling 3 $6500–$8000 Python 3 $2949–$4669 SQL 3 $2550–$3953 Systems Programming 3 $7137–$7245 Blockchain 2 $4305–$5303 Concurrency 2 $4593–$5281 Cryptography 2 $2497–$4583 Earned Value Management 2 $6812–$8233 Ethereum 2 $8624–$8864 Go 2 $4655–$5999 Hardware Security Modules 2 $3000–$4000 Java 2 $4339–$4890 Kubernetes 2 $3579–$5418 Linux 2 $1972–$3830 Low-latency systems 2 $8250–$15440 Manual QA 2 $1364–$2802 Multithreading 2 $4700–$5727 PKCS#11 2 $3000–$4000 TypeScript 2 $3926–$5116 WebSocket 2 $2181–$3874

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Developer salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·