The Most Common Job Title in Tech Covers 2% of the Jobs
9,247 open tech roles carry 5,526 distinct job titles, and 4,829 of those titles are used by exactly one company. Half the market is unreachable by keyword search in principle.
Grafana Labs Has Two Hiring Regions. Its Job Posts Describe Them Eleven Different Ways.
Every one of Grafana Labs' 18 open roles is remote and publishes a salary band. Thirteen carry a geographic restriction written eleven different ways, four of them naming the same five countries.
The People With the Least Leverage Get Told the Least About Pay
Junior roles publish a salary band 33.5% of the time against 54.5% for senior. We split it by jurisdiction to check whether that is just geography. It is not, and the law nearly closes the gap.
Two Systems Handle 82% of the Tech Jobs You Apply To
Greenhouse carries 55% of open tech roles and Ashby 27%. The ratio of roles per customer turns the applicant tracking system into a company-stage signal you can read before opening the job post.
"Competitive Salary" Is Not a Benefit. 44% of Job Posts Disagree.
We read the benefits list on every open tech role. More than four companies in ten list something that is not a benefit. Only 32% mention parental leave and 38% mention retirement matching.
We Track 16,559 Job Postings. There Are 9,247 Jobs.
56% of active tech job postings are copies of another posting. One company turns eight openings into 1,768 rows. Collapsing the duplicates cuts the fully remote share from 22% to 14%.
Half the Jobs You Are Looking At Will Be Gone in 13 Days
We timed 11,219 tech roles from the day they appeared to the day they closed. Half were gone in 13 days, nearly a third inside a week. The average of 24 days is a lie told by a fat tail.
How Supabase Hires: Straight Out of the Repo
Inside Supabase's hiring and engineering culture: fully remote, no geo-adjusted pay, and Postgres in 25 of the 29 open roles we track. A Company Spotlight.
Bangalore Is the Fourth-Biggest Tech Hiring City. It Isn't Doing Your Outsourcing.
We read the location on every open role across 1,121 tech companies. San Francisco leads at 196, then New York at 172 and London at 143. Fourth place goes to Bangalore, ahead of Toronto, Seattle and Berlin.
Everyone Has React and TypeScript. Almost Nobody Has React and Rust.
We read the tech stack off 14,106 open roles. 70% of React roles also name TypeScript, so that pair stopped being a signal. Only 65 name Rust. The market hires clusters, not skills.
The tech job market, halfway through 2026
A mid-year cross-section of the tech job market: 15,034 open roles at the 867 companies hiring, out of 1,073 we track. Only 3% are junior, the modal stack is a cloud platform, and a third of the board turns over every month.
How PostHog Builds and Hires in the Open
PostHog publishes its handbook, its salary calculator, even its post-mortems. Our first Company Spotlight: how tech's most transparent company builds and hires.
Pay Transparency Isn't a Value. It's a Jurisdiction.
We read the pay off 14,865 open tech roles. San Francisco discloses at 88%, Bangalore at 0.4%. The line between them isn't culture or company size. It's whether a law says they have to.
ChatGPT Has the Users. Claude Has the Job Posts.
Among 867 hiring tech companies, 169 name Claude in their job posts, 135 name OpenAI, and 80 name Gemini. Open-weight models show up at 8. The consumer ranking, inverted.
