Market slice

Software Engineer jobs

92,298 open Software Engineer jobs. Median salary $126k, 13.0% remote, 3,101 posted this week.

Open roles
92,298
3,101 new this week
Median salary
$126k
6.2% disclose pay
Remote share
13.0%
of all openings
Median age of posting
68d
43.1% older than 60d
Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted68d median90d+
Age of postingShare
Posted in the last 7 days13.0%
Median age68 days
Older than 60 days43.1%

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

$56k$217k
Based on 5,722 postings that disclose pay — 6.2% 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.
PercentileSalary
25th$99,000
Median$125,500
75th$155,500
90th$191,000
Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top technologies

72.0%
65.8%
59.6%
53.4%
47.2%
41.0%
34.8%
28.6%

Most-asked skills

Coaching
58.0%
Cross-functional leadership
52.6%
Roadmapping
47.2%
Technical writing
41.8%
Forecasting
36.4%
Data modelling
31.0%
Distributed systems
25.6%
Negotiation
20.2%
Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote
13.0%
Hybrid
28.2%
In Person
58.8%

Top locations

United States
34.0%
Canada
30.4%
United Kingdom
26.8%
Ireland
23.2%
Germany
19.6%
France
16.0%
Netherlands
12.4%
Spain
8.8%
Employers
28,612
hiring in this slice
Posted last 7d
13.0%
of the cohort
Salary disclosed
6.2%
of postings publish pay
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FAQ

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Which cities hire the most software engineers?

The top locations chart above ranks cities by open postings for this role.

Is software engineer a remote-friendly role?

The remote share tile shows what percentage of current openings are advertised as remote.

Figures cover 92,298 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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