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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

rust

640 live US technical postings name rust in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 640 postings naming rust that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer78%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.9%
  3. 3Security Engineer6.7%
  4. 4Backend Engineer2%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer2%
  6. 6Data Engineer1.1%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where rust is named
n = 155
10th
$143k
25th
$170k
Median
$203k
75th
$245k
90th
$310k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA21.6%
  2. 2Remote10.5%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA10.3%
  4. 4Seattle, WA6.7%
  5. 5New York, NY6.4%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.5%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.2%
  8. 8Boston, MA2%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.