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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

rust

1,250 live US technical postings name rust in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 1,250 postings naming rust that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer76.8%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.4%
  3. 3Security Engineer5.8%
  4. 4Backend Engineer2.6%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer2.2%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.8%
  7. 7Data Engineer1.7%

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 = 833
10th
$150k
25th
$175k
Median
$204k
75th
$239k
90th
$296k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA21.8%
  2. 2Remote11.5%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA9.8%
  4. 4New York, NY5.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.8%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA3.2%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.1%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.