Rust Jobs Report: December 2024
Welcome to the December 2024 Rust Jobs Report by filtra. Please enjoy our overview of the Rust job market.
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Are There Jobs in Rust?
936Despite the typical slowdown in hiring seen at the end of the year, December '24 was still a strong month. We found 936 postings in total.
How Many Companies Use Rust?
105The number of companies hiring for Rust positions continues to hold above 100.
What Companies Use Rust Most?
GitHub is the new name on the leaderboard for Rust hirers. You'll note that we've elected to count GitHub separately from Microsoft for now.
What Other Companies Use Rust?
| Workato | 17 |
| Fastly | 14 |
| Disney | 14 |
| Fortanix | 13 |
| HelsingAI | 13 |
| Figma | 12 |
| IBM | 12 |
| SpaceX | 10 |
| Worldcoin | 9 |
| Deliveroo | 9 |
| Discord | 9 |
| IOHK | 9 |
| Ditto | 9 |
| HyperExponential | 8 |
| KeyRock | 7 |
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| Sentry | 7 |
| Scaleway | 7 |
| Syndica | 6 |
| informal | 6 |
| Parity | 6 |
| Ardan Labs | 6 |
| Conduit | 6 |
| OpenAI | 6 |
| Volume Finance | 5 |
| Deep Fence | 5 |
| SurrealDB | 5 |
| Matic | 4 |
| Zama | 4 |
| Smarkets | 4 |
| Ellipsis Labs | 4 |
| StarkWare | 4 |
| ApolloGraphQL | 4 |
| AllSpice | 3 |
| InfinyOn | 3 |
| Zoo | 3 |
| HealPay | 3 |
| Fullstory | 3 |
| Mercedes | 3 |
| Svix | 3 |
| Zed Industries | 3 |
| Akamai | 3 |
| Toyota Connected | 3 |
| Meta | 3 |
| Heliax | 3 |
| OpenTalk | 2 |
| 1Password | 2 |
| OneSignal | 2 |
| Hugging Face | 2 |
| Axiom | 2 |
| arm | 2 |
| Open Cosmos | 2 |
| automata | 2 |
| Railway | 2 |
| Aztec | 2 |
| Stockly | 2 |
| rerun.io | 2 |
| Embark | 2 |
| Qumulo | 2 |
| Vercel | 1 |
| ZORA | 1 |
| TrueLayer | 1 |
| Shadow | 1 |
| Volka | 1 |
| Turso | 1 |
| amo | 1 |
| Osmosis Labs | 1 |
| KION | 1 |
| Prisma | 1 |
| Grafbase | 1 |
| Tonari | 1 |
| Atlassian | 1 |
| Materialize | 1 |
| Mozilla | 1 |
| PayPal | 1 |
| Ledger | 1 |
| Immunant | 1 |
| AppSignal | 1 |
| Qwiet AI | 1 |
| Knowbe4 | 1 |
| Swift Navigation | 1 |
| Tabnine | 1 |
| Zelis | 1 |
| Activision | 1 |
| LINE | 1 |
| 10X Genomics | 1 |
| Galois | 1 |
| shuttle | 1 |
| Liquid Analytics | 1 |
| DSCVR | 1 |
| Chorus One | 1 |
| Polybase | 1 |
| Cymo | 1 |
| FP Complete | 1 |
| Shielded Labs | 1 |
One of the encouraging signals we've been watching is the growing depth of companies hiring for more than a few rust positions. You'll notice that companies like Workato, Fastly, and Disney all have several open Rust positions despite not making the leaderboard. If you know of a company that should be included here but isn't, let us know. filtra@filtra.io
What Industries Use Rust Most?
As of now, we're categorizing all the AI companies under data science. Notably, that category has grown tremendously in the last year. It will be interesting to see how far data science moves up the industry leaderboard in the next year.
What Other Industries Use Rust?
| messaging/notifications | 14 |
| streaming | 14 |
| databases | 12 |
| aerospace | 12 |
| marketplace | 11 |
| browser | 8 |
| social media | 4 |
| gaming | 4 |
| health/biotech | 2 |
| networking | 1 |
| animation | 1 |
Discord put messaging/notifications at the top of the other industries chart this month. If you're interested in working in a particular industry, check out the new industry filter on our homepage!
Are Rust Jobs Only For Senior Devs?
Unfortunately, the spike in entry-level positions that we saw in November seems to be an aberration rather than a developing trend.
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.