Software Engineer leads the field
Software Engineer is the most in-demand engineering role (2,311 open, 19% of the field), followed by Research Scientist (1,657).
Engineering · State of the market
State of the Engineering job market.
A live read on engineering hiring, built from 12,003 open roles across 756 companies - the 1st-largest field we track, and 25% of everything open. Updated hourly from public job postings.
Synced from public job postings · snapshot September 2026
12,003
Open roles
+792
Posted this week
756
Companies hiring
$203k
Median base, where disclosed
What the data says
Four things the listings tell us
There are 12,003 open engineering roles across 756 companies on LandEarly right now, with 792 posted in the past week. Senior-level roles make up 50% of the openings, and 63% of roles that specify a work model are fully remote.
Weighted toward senior experience
50% of open engineering roles read as senior-level. Entry-level (intern + junior) roles are 12% - a signal of how open this field is to early-career candidates.
A remote-friendly field
Of engineering roles that specify a work model, 63% are fully remote and 8% are hybrid. (Many listings don't declare one - this is the share among those that do.)
Companies hiring right now
Databricks is the most active employer in engineering (503 open roles, 4% of the field), but the openings are spread across 756 companies in total.
Where the demand is
One field, 58 different jobs
“Engineering” is a bucket, not a job. It rolls up 58 titles that share a craft but not a day - different scope, different level, different pay band. Which title you're chasing is the first cut worth making.
Open roles by title
Share of 12,003 listingsExperience level
All open rolesIntern2%
Junior10%
Mid22%
Senior50%
Staff9%
Principal3%
Executive3%
Read off each posting at ingest, not a field employers fill in - so this is a share of all 12,003 open roles, with nothing left out.
Work model
Where declaredOn-site 29%Hybrid 8%Remote 63%
Only 4,764 of 12,003 engineering listings declare a work model. These shares cover those, and no others.
Freshness
What’s open, by the week it posted
How old the live engineering pipeline is - the window where applying early still puts you in front of a human instead of a stack.
Jun 22This week
+792
engineering roles posted in the last seven days, across 756 employers - 7% of everything open in the field.
Each bar is the open roles posted that week, not a count of everything posted then: roles that have since closed are gone from it, so older weeks read lighter by design. The window starts when we began ingesting engineering listings, because a week-by-week series that ran further back would measure our board coverage rather than the market. 588 listings carry no posting date and sit out of this chart.
Pay, where disclosed
Base salary, from listings that state one
Base only. Bonus, commission and equity are real money but listings describe them too inconsistently to compare, so they stay out of the maths rather than inflate it.
25th percentile
$149k
The bottom of the middle 50%
Median
$203k
Half of priced listings pay more
75th percentile
$247k
Top of the middle 50%
$149k$203k$247k
What the number is
Computed from the 3,122 open engineering listings that state an annual base range - one midpoint per listing. The other 8,881 state none, and are not estimated in.
Software Engineer salary guideWho's hiring, and where
756 companies, 10 metros
Most active employers
Open engineering roles
Top locations
Open engineering rolesSan Francisco, CA1,817
New York, NY849
Seattle, WA250
Miami, FL173
📍 Toronto, ON142
Atlanta, GA136
Austin, TX133
Long Beach, CA133
Pittsburgh, PA115
Chicago, IL109
Employers write locations as free text, so every spelling of a city is resolved to one market before it’s counted. A listing naming several markets counts in each, so these don’t sum to the field. The 6,966 that name no city - remote, “Hybrid”, a campus or a building - sit out entirely rather than get attributed to one.
Methodology
How we compute this
Short version: we count listings, we don't model them. Where the data is thin, the page says so instead of guessing.
Counted, not estimated
Every figure comes from the 12,003 active engineering listings we track across 16 applicant-tracking systems, ingested hourly from public job boards. A role that closes this morning drops out this afternoon.
Shares state their own denominator
Work-model percentages cover only the 4,764 listings that declare one. Experience level is read off every posting at ingest, so those shares cover the whole field. We’d rather show the smaller base than fill the gap.
A field rolls up related titles
Engineering covers Software Engineer, Research Scientist, Engineering Manager and 55 more titles. A posting joins a title when its own text describes that job - the roll-up is on the classified role, never on a keyword in the headline.
FAQ
Common questions
How many engineering jobs are open right now?
12,003 as of September 2026, across 756 companies, with 792 posted in the last seven days. The count is recomputed every hour and roles that close drop out the same day.
Which engineering roles are most in demand?
Software Engineer (2,311 open), Research Scientist (1,657 open), and Engineering Manager (941 open) - out of 58 engineering titles carrying at least one open role today.
Are engineering jobs remote?
Of the 4,764 engineering listings that declare a work model, 63% are fully remote, 8% hybrid and 29% on-site. Most listings never say, so this is the share among those that do - not of the whole field.
What does a engineering job pay?
Median disclosed base is $203k, with the middle 50% between $149k and $247k. That is base only, computed from the 3,122 open engineering listings that state an annual range - bonus, commission and equity are excluded because listings describe them too inconsistently to compare.
What experience level are engineering jobs?
50% of open engineering roles read as senior-level, and 12% are entry-level (intern or junior). The level is read off each posting when we ingest it, so every open role is counted here.
Other fields
Beyond Engineering
Same method, same hourly refresh - each with its own live count.
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