Rust Jobs Report: December 2023
Welcome to the December 2023 Rust Jobs Report by filtra. Please enjoy our overview of the Rust job market.
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Are There Jobs in Rust?
617We can't keep up! The total number of positions leapt again in December to a record high of 617.
How Many Companies Use Rust?
91The total number of hirers actually dropped slightly in December. So, the overall growth in hiring was more in the top ten than in the long tail of small hirers.
What Companies Use Rust Most?
December saw growth in the number of job postings within the top ten. And, previously unlisted IBM came out of nowhere with 18 jobs!
What Other Companies Use Rust?
| Crypto.com | 12 |
| Syndica | 9 |
| Embark | 9 |
| Worldcoin | 8 |
| Qdrant | 7 |
| Matter Labs | 7 |
| Figma | 6 |
| Discord | 5 |
| KeyRock | 5 |
| Stockly | 5 |
| Volume Finance | 5 |
| HelsingAI | 5 |
| Deliveroo | 5 |
| Ardan Labs | 5 |
| Akamai | 4 |
| OneSignal | 4 |
| Atlassian | 4 |
| Matic | 4 |
| Zama | 4 |
| Okta | 4 |
| 3 | |
| HealPay | 3 |
| Replit | 3 |
| Smarkets | 3 |
| Liquid Analytics | 3 |
| PingCAP | 3 |
| InfinyOn | 3 |
| OVH | 3 |
| 1Password | 3 |
| Deep Fence | 3 |
| Trivago | 3 |
| Gamaspace | 3 |
| Sentry | 3 |
| Rapid7 | 3 |
| SmartThings | 3 |
| HyperExponential | 3 |
| Railway | 2 |
| IOTA Foundation | 2 |
| Galois | 2 |
| Zoo | 2 |
| OpenAI | 2 |
| Qovery | 2 |
| arm | 2 |
| Svix | 2 |
| Scaleway | 2 |
| Starry | 2 |
| Star Lab | 2 |
| Ledger | 2 |
| Toyota Connected | 2 |
| Ditto | 2 |
| Samsung | 2 |
| Vercel | 1 |
| Mozilla | 1 |
| Turso | 1 |
| Chorus One | 1 |
| EdgeDB | 1 |
| Clever Cloud | 1 |
| Open Cosmos | 1 |
| FP Complete | 1 |
| TrueLayer | 1 |
| AppSignal | 1 |
| Qwiet AI | 1 |
| Data Direct Networks | 1 |
| Meilisearch | 1 |
| Aleph Alpha | 1 |
| Nuclia | 1 |
| 10X Genomics | 1 |
| Signal | 1 |
| shuttle | 1 |
| KION | 1 |
| Astropad | 1 |
| Activision | 1 |
| Threema | 1 |
| Heliax | 1 |
| Tabnine | 1 |
| UXStream | 1 |
| WalletConnect | 1 |
| Lit Protocol | 1 |
| Grafbase | 1 |
| DSCVR | 1 |
| Tonari | 1 |
Thanks to community submissions, the index of hirers continues to grow. If you know of a company that should be on this list, don't hesitate to point it out: filtra@filtra.io
What Industries Use Rust Most?
The top ten industries remained relatively stable in December. Note the surprise appearance of the consultancy category due to IBM's large consulting business.
What Other Industries Use Rust?
| marketplace | 13 |
| messaging/notifications | 11 |
| iot/robotics/automotive | 10 |
| gaming | 10 |
| fintech | 10 |
| databases | 5 |
| browser | 4 |
| animation | 2 |
| networking | 2 |
| health/biotech | 1 |
One thing that hasn't changed much in the Rust job market is the list of industries applying the technology. It would appear that the language has now made inroads in almost all applicable sectors.
Are Rust Jobs Only For Senior Devs?
The proportion of entry-level Rust jobs as a share of the total Rust job market hasn't change much. However, early-career engineers can find a silver lining in the fact that the market as a whole is growing. So, the absolute number of starter jobs is in-fact growing.
Data for this edition of the Rust Jobs Report is filtra platform data supplemented with public job postings. Feel free to visit the filtra Rust blog to see past reports.