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.
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.
