Tech Job Market Report: September 2026
A snapshot of what's open across the 1,121 companies we track on remoet.dev. 795 of them are hiring right now. The rest are quiet this month.
16,000 active job openings. That total counts raw postings, one row per posting. Collapsed into distinct roles, which is the unit the board at remoet.dev/jobs shows, the same snapshot reads 13,034. Here's how the postings break down.
Where the work is
| Location policy | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fully remote | 3,385 | 21% |
| Remote, region-restricted | 3,381 | 21% |
| Hybrid | 5,672 | 35% |
| Onsite | 3,549 | 22% |
| Unspecified | 13 | 0% |
Almost every posting now declares a location policy. The unspecified bucket is down to 13 postings, which is why it rounds to zero.
Top 15 companies by open postings
Ranked by raw postings rather than collapsed roles, so a company that publishes one role once per location ranks far above its actual hiring. Speechify is the clearest case: it tops this list on postings, and when we re-measured on 2026-09-17 its collapsed role count was 15.
Speechify, 1,495 postings
Anduril Industries, 1,029 postings
Databricks, 497 postings
OpenAI, 382 postings
Anthropic, 233 postings
Snowflake, 192 postings
Stripe, 190 postings
MongoDB, 190 postings
Airwallex, 180 postings
Zscaler, 171 postings
Datadog, 169 postings
Canonical, 161 postings
Roblox, 161 postings
Nebius, 161 postings
Cloudflare, 156 postings
What pays
Salary bands across roles that mention each tech, drawn from postings with disclosed USD comp. Caveat: postings with public salary skew toward US states with pay-transparency laws (CA, CO, NY, WA), so absolute levels run high. Filtered to techs with at least 50 postings.
| Tech | Avg low | Avg high | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| cuda | $216k | $327k | 76 |
| machine learning | $213k | $310k | 180 |
| ml | $207k | $290k | 92 |
| llm | $201k | $283k | 269 |
| pytorch | $200k | $305k | 261 |
| rust | $196k | $275k | 605 |
| tensorflow | $196k | $292k | 137 |
| rag | $192k | $266k | 64 |
| flink | $190k | $269k | 105 |
| temporal | $189k | $271k | 72 |
Experience level
545 active postings tag themselves as junior-level. That's about 3.4% of the total. The split: 9,973 senior, 5,469 mid, 545 junior. If you're in your first three years, treat the junior subset as your working set and sort by company-stack match before applying.
Most common benefits
Counted by distinct companies offering each benefit on at least one active posting. Free-text benefit fields get noisy fast, and only about half of postings list any benefits at all.
equity, 210 companies
health insurance, 95 companies
competitive salary, 95 companies
professional development, 88 companies
dental insurance, 83 companies
parental leave, 75 companies
vision insurance, 73 companies
paid parental leave, 69 companies
competitive compensation, 65 companies
unlimited pto, 61 companies
Methodology
Data is pulled from 1,121 company career pages, scraped and enriched daily. Active-job counts are point-in-time as of report generation, and every count in this report is raw postings rather than the collapsed roles the board shows. Salary numbers reflect only postings that publish compensation, which biases toward US pay-transparency jurisdictions.
Coverage is still expanding as we onboard new sources, so month-over-month job totals look inflated. Treat absolute numbers as current snapshots, not as growth signals, until coverage stabilizes.
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