Django: market
Django is a 'batteries-included' Python framework: ORM, migrations, admin, authentication and templates out of the box, plus Django REST Framework for APIs. We track 1 377 open positions listing Django, 1 312 of them fresh. Django is chosen for products where development speed and a mature ecosystem matter: marketplaces, fintech, content platforms, internal systems. Most of the demand comes from Backend, Fullstack and DevOps roles. It most often appears next to Python, AWS and FastAPI. 40% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured demand for Django developers.
The Django market currently has 1,377 open roles, 1,312 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,778/mo. Observed candidate pool — 1,123.
40% of Django postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 127 of 1377 jobs; remote share from 1130 with a stated format; 1312 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 1,377 |
| Observed supply | 1,123 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $1,619, one in ten over $13,958. Half the market falls between $3,000 and $7,500. Sample: 127.
The range histogram for Django postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 248 |
| PL | 194 |
| IN | 121 |
| RU | 100 |
| GB | 65 |
| CA | 44 |
| DE | 42 |
| ZA | 38 |
| UA | 29 |
| ES | 26 |
The top country for Django demand is the US (248 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Django most often appears next to Python, AWS and FastAPI. FastAPI and Flask among the neighbours — Python backend often expects several frameworks.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Backend | 588 |
| Fullstack | 376 |
| DevOps | 114 |
| Frontend | 52 |
| AI Engineer | 40 |
| Architect | 37 |
| Data | 33 |
| ML/AI | 29 |
| Platform Engineer | 16 |
| PM | 10 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 496 |
| middle | 115 |
| principal | 54 |
| junior | 49 |
| lead | 48 |
Senior-and-above is about 78% of 762 graded Django postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 770 employers. The largest accounts for 1.6%, the top ten for 9.5%; the remaining 90.5% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 1.6% |
| top-3 | 3.7% |
| top-10 | 9.5% |
| long tail | 90.5% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 116 sources; the largest accounts for 14.9% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Django postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Senior Software Engineer · US
- Fullstack-разработчик (AI-native) · RU
- Limassol, Cyprus | Hybrid · CY
- Fullstack Developer (Python + JS) · PL
- Platform Engineer
- Senior / Backend Full Stack Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer · IN
- Contract Software Engineer - WebCompat Tooling (Dashboards and Reporting), Firefox
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: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-22
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Django market — short answers from the same data slice.
What is asked of a Django developer?
ORM and query optimization (select_related, prefetch_related), migrations, DRF and serializers, Celery for background jobs, caching, tests, PostgreSQL.
Django or FastAPI?
Both are in demand: the slice tracks 1 377 open Django positions. Django is stronger where an admin, ORM and monolith are needed; FastAPI — in async APIs and AI services. Many postings name both.
Is Django a good entry into backend?
Yes, one of the clearest: the framework sets the project structure, and the docs and community are large. A pet project with DRF, PostgreSQL and Docker covers the baseline requirements.