The tech job market, halfway through 2026
It's July, so we're at the midpoint of the year, and I wanted to actually look at where the tech job market stands rather than guess from the headlines. Not last year's report, not a curated ten roles, the whole thing: a single cross-section of 15,034 open roles at the 867 companies that had anything open, out of the 1,073 we track, taken on July 20.
We track all of it to run the product anyway, so at some point we figured there was no reason to keep it to ourselves. It's public now, at remoet.dev/market: no account, no signup, nothing to install. It's aggregated from the same live listings your agent can already search over our MCP server, just gathered into one human-shaped view this time.
Here's the part that made me sit up.
The board is a river, not a list
There are 15,034 active roles on it today. But 5,441 of those were posted in the last month, and 5,672 were removed in the same window. More than a third of the entire board turned over in thirty days. (More roles closed than opened this past month, actually, though it's one July and I wouldn't hang a trend on a single month.)
That churn is the honest reason the page is a dated snapshot and not a satisfying line climbing up and to the right. The thing moves too fast for a month-over-month comparison to mean much, and the number of companies we track is still growing, so any "up 40% since spring" chart would mostly be measuring us, not the market. So we show one cross-section, stamped with the date it was taken, and say as much right on the page.
Where did the junior roles go
Of the roles that state an experience level, 63% are senior. Three percent are junior. That's 518 junior openings against 9,521 senior ones on the same board.
I keep wanting to find the caveat that softens it (thin sample? one bad month?), and I can't, not really. It's a big pool and it says the same thing every way you cut it. Make of it what you will; it's just what's posted right now.
Most of them want a cloud, not a framework
Rank the technologies by how many open roles name each one and the top of the list is not the frontend framework wars you'd expect from tech Twitter. It's Python, then AWS, Kubernetes, GCP, and Go. React shows up eighth, behind TypeScript and Java. The modal tech job in mid-2026 wants you comfortable in somebody's cloud, and the frontend stack sits a rung below that.
Fully remote is the minority now
Of the roles with a stated work policy, only 22% are fully remote. Hybrid leads at 38%, another 21% are remote but region-locked (remote, as long as you're in the right country or timezone), and 19% are straight onsite. Whatever you've read about the great remote reshuffle, the board says hybrid quietly took the middle. If you've been fighting your own return-to-office battle, that probably doesn't shock you.
Half of them will tell you the pay
Half the active roles publish a salary range in USD (7,463 of them, to be exact). For the ones that do, senior pay clusters around a $175K to $240K median, with the wider band running $140K to $295K. Mid and junior sit below that, as you'd guess, and the page breaks out each level with its sample size printed next to it so you can see how much weight to put on each bar.
We only count ranges already posted in USD. Converting a euro or rupee range at today's exchange rate would be stale by the time you read this, so those roles sit out of the salary chart rather than get a guessed-at number.
What it is, and what it deliberately isn't
Aggregate counts only. No company names, no job titles, no "here are 200 openings to scroll." It's the shape of the market, not a feed of it. If you want the actual roles, that's the rest of what Remoet does, and the way we think it should work is simple: connect an agent, star a company or two whose stack genuinely fits yours, and let the agent surface new roles from those companies as they open. The market page is just the wide-angle version of the same picture.
This is the first public slice of something we want to do a lot more of. So if a number looks wrong to you, or there's a cut of this you wish we showed (by city? by stack? over time, once we've got enough honest months to not mislead anyone?), come tell us in Discord. Genuinely, that's how the next version of this page gets decided. The board will look different next month, which is rather the point, and we'll keep it current. Thanks for reading.
