Software Engineer: market
Data as of November 10, 2026: 32,792 open Software Engineer jobs, 23% of them remote; median advertised salary $12,000/mo (from 4,183 postings that state a salary). Source: Zorky, updated daily.
A Software Engineer designs, writes and maintains software: from server-side services and applications to tooling and embedded systems. It is the most general name for an engineering role — the language and domain in the posting make it specific. We currently track 32 792 open positions for this role, 28 329 of them fresh. Nearly every posting expects a strong main language (Python, Java, C++, Go, C# or TypeScript), algorithms and data structures, system design, SQL, Git, code review, tests, the cloud and Docker. By co-occurrence in requirements, Python, Java, AWS and C++ appear most often. 29% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Software Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Software Engineer market currently has 32,792 open roles, 28,329 of them freshly observed. Median salary $12,000/mo.
29% of Software Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 4183 of 32792 jobs; remote share from 26445 with a stated format; 28329 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply: Software Engineer
| Open demand | 32,792 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Software Engineer
- usable for the calculation: 4,183 (12.8%)
- stated but not converted to USD/month: 4,927 (15%)
- not stated: 23,682 (72.2%)
One in ten postings offers under $4,927, one in ten over $18,374. Half of the postings offer between $7,880 and $15,504. Sample: 4,183.
The range histogram for Software Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Software Engineer
| country | jobs | share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 12,790 | 45.3% |
| United Kingdom | 2,302 | 8.1% |
| India | 2,216 | 7.8% |
| Poland | 1,600 | 5.7% |
| Canada | 1,312 | 4.6% |
| Germany | 1,031 | 3.6% |
| Singapore | 913 | 3.2% |
| France | 383 | 1.4% |
| Brazil | 328 | 1.2% |
| Spain | 300 | 1.1% |
| Other countries | 5,081 | 18% |
The top country for Software Engineer demand is the US (12 790 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Share — how many of the 32,792 jobs in the Software Engineer market mention this technology. Ordered by job count, not by “strength of association”. Umbrella terms like cloud are not a specific cloud (AWS, Azure).
In Software Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are Python, Java, AWS and C++.
Demand by grade: Software Engineer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 11,928 |
| principal | 4,627 |
| junior | 1,717 |
| lead | 1,394 |
| middle | 1,055 |
Senior-and-above is about 87% of 20 721 Software Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Software Engineer
Demand is spread across 8,271 employers. The largest accounts for 3.3%, the top ten for 12.4%; the remaining 87.6% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 3.3% |
| top-3 | 7.7% |
| top-10 | 12.4% |
| long tail | 87.6% |
Software Engineer openings come from 8 271 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 3.3% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 192 sources; the largest accounts for 22.5% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Software Engineer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Software Engineer
- DevOps Software Engineer III · US
- EverHealth - Software Engineer · US · $10,833
- Senior Software Engineer (.NET, Angular & Agentic AI) | 5 year(s) | Senior | IC
- Программист Bitrix24 · RU
- Sr. Software Engineer · IE
- Sr. Software Engineer · IE
- Sr. Software Engineer · IE
- Sr. Software Engineer · IE
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-11-10
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Software Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Software Engineer do?
A Software Engineer designs, writes and maintains software: from server-side services and applications to tooling and embedded systems. It is the most general name for an engineering role — the language and domain in the posting make it specific.
Which skills do Software Engineer postings require?
Nearly every posting expects a strong main language (Python, Java, C++, Go, C# or TypeScript), algorithms and data structures, system design, SQL, Git, code review, tests, the cloud and Docker. In the current slice, Python, Java, AWS and C++ appear in requirements most often.
How is a Software Engineer different from a developer?
In practice it is the same role under different names. "Software Engineer" is more common in US and European postings, "developer" and "programmer" elsewhere; judge the requirements by the stack and the level.
How remote-friendly are Software Engineer jobs?
29% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 32 792 open positions.
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