Market slice

Software Engineer jobs in Japan

35,100 open Software Engineer jobs in Japan. Median salary €136k, 9.4% remote, 2,953 posted this week.

Open roles

35,100

2,953 new this week

Median salary

€136k

6.3% disclose pay

Remote share

9.4%

of all openings

Median age of posting

86d

45.3% older than 60d

Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted86d median90d+

Age of posting	Share
Posted in the last 7 days	7.4%
Median age	86 days
Older than 60 days	45.3%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

€61k€234k

Based on 2,211 postings that disclose pay — 6.3% of this slice.

Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.

Percentile	Salary
25th	€107,000
Median	€135,500
75th	€168,000
90th	€206,000

Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

Lakeshore Hospitality

3,299

3,054

2,808

2,527

2,282

2,036

1,790

1,544

Top technologies

72.0%

65.8%

59.6%

53.4%

47.2%

41.0%

34.8%

28.6%

Most-asked skills

Coaching

58.0%

Vendor management

52.6%

Data modelling

47.2%

Incident response

41.8%

A/B testing

36.4%

Distributed systems

31.0%

Technical writing

25.6%

Cross-functional leadership

20.2%

Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote

9.4%

Hybrid

28.1%

In Person

62.5%

Top locations

Japan

34.0%

United States

30.4%

Canada

26.8%

United Kingdom

23.2%

Ireland

19.6%

Germany

16.0%

France

12.4%

Netherlands

8.8%

Employers

10,881

hiring in this slice

Posted last 7d

7.4%

of the cohort

Salary disclosed

6.3%

Vantage Logistics · Japan

Not disclosed

Hybrid tech software it 82d ago

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FAQ

Questions people ask

How many software engineer jobs are open in Japan?

We track software engineer openings published in Japan, refreshed continuously. The count at the top of this page is the current total. Job postings read directly from company applicant tracking systems.

What does a software engineer earn in Japan?

The median advertised salary is shown above, alongside the 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles. Only postings that publish a salary are included, so the sample is smaller than the total number of openings.

How do I get this data through an API?

Every number on this page comes from one call to our jobs and insights endpoints. See the API documentation for the request shape and filters.

Figures cover 35,100 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →

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