Data-driven insights into the software engineering job market, drawn from our index of 77,480 active listings across 8,230 companies and 214 countries.
A comprehensive breakdown of compensation by seniority, location, tech stack, and industry. We analyzed 29,000+ salary data points to map the full landscape of engineering pay — from junior roles at $85K to principal engineers earning $366K.
With 44% of roles now onsite and 29% fully remote, the post-pandemic workplace has settled into a new equilibrium. We examine which industries, seniority levels, and geographies lean remote vs. onsite, and the salary premium that comes with distributed work.
Python appears in 25% of all listings. Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) collectively dominates. And LLM-specific roles have surged to 3,382 listings. We break down which technologies the market values most and how they correlate with pay.
San Francisco still leads in absolute listings, but the gap is narrowing. We compare hiring volume, salary ranges, remote availability, and dominant industries across 20+ engineering hubs worldwide — from established leaders to emerging markets.
Fintech leads with nearly 10,000 listings, but insurance is the surprise second place. We analyze hiring volume, tech preferences, compensation, and remote policies across 15 industries to map where the opportunities are.
AI/ML tools dominate the top of the salary chart — OpenAI-ecosystem roles average $237K while Rust commands $200K as the highest-paying programming language. We rank 30 technologies by compensation and analyze why the pay gap between frontend and infrastructure keeps widening.
Hybrid roles actually pay more than both remote and onsite positions — a $12,700 premium over fully remote. We break down compensation by work model, which industries are most remote-friendly, and why crypto leads at 55.6% remote while defense trails at 13.5%.
Six of the ten highest-paying cities are in the San Francisco Bay Area, but Bengaluru leads the world in raw job volume with 3,536 listings. We map salary, job availability, and emerging tech hubs from Warsaw to Lisbon to Singapore.
LLM-tagged jobs average $210K — a $44K premium over general JavaScript roles. PyTorch has overtaken TensorFlow in both demand and pay. We analyze the AI hiring landscape, from the OpenAI ecosystem to MLOps infrastructure and the skills that command the highest premiums.
Gaming tops the salary charts at $211K average, but with only 176 listings it's fiercely competitive. Fintech offers the best balance of volume (5,564 jobs) and pay ($195K). We rank 19 industries by compensation, remote flexibility, and opportunity density.
Only 1.7% of listings explicitly target junior engineers — but the junior-to-senior salary jump of 63% ($109K to $177K) represents the steepest career acceleration in engineering. We map where the entry-level opportunities are, which tech stacks to learn first, and how to navigate the seniority ladder.