# The State of the Tech Job Market — 2026

Data through June 2026.

Across 204,223 deduplicated US tech & professional job
postings from 30,910 companies, the median posted pay
midpoint is $144,000 and 56.5% of
postings are remote.

## Market at a glance

- Postings collected (raw): 483,233
- Unique postings analyzed: 204,223
- Companies: 30,910
- Median posted pay (midpoint): $144,000 (p25 $115,000 / p75 $177,500)
- Remote share: 56.5%

## What pays — the title ladder

- Staff Software Engineer: $195,000 (n=689)
- Principal Software Engineer: $187,500 (n=343)
- Engineering Manager: $170,000 (n=305)
- Senior Software Engineer: $158,000 (n=3,890)
- Software Engineer: $137,000 (n=3,011)
- AI Engineer: $160,000 (n=501)
- Data Engineer: $135,000 (n=1,482)
- Product Manager: $140,000 (n=804)
- Data Analyst: $100,000 (n=560)
- Business Analyst: $94,000 (n=296)

## The seniority squeeze

Senior, Staff, Lead and Principal postings vastly outnumber genuinely
entry-tagged ones. The single most common title is Senior Software Engineer
(3,928 postings).

## Skills snapshot

Average skills requested per posting: 14.7. The most
common single skill is Python (27.8% of postings).
AI-related skills appear in 22.3% of postings.

## Market structure

The top 1% of companies (310 employers) account for
31.3% of all postings.

## The repost problem

20.9% of postings are recycled — the same
title+company combination posted three or more times under different posting IDs.

## Where companies hire

- linkedin: 22.9% (n=46,844)
- workday: 14.8% (n=30,215)
- ashby: 6.6% (n=13,435)
- lever: 3.5% (n=7,156)
- greenhouse: 3.2% (n=6,518)
- dice: 1.9% (n=3,885)
- amazon: 1.8% (n=3,765)
- ziprecruiter: 1.6% (n=3,242)

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Source: SoviaJobs Job Market Research, June 2026.
Free to use with citation + a link to https://www.soviajobs.com/market-research.
Salary figures are platform-estimated posted ranges (posted or estimated),
not employer-disclosed pay. Corpus is tech & professional roles.