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title: "Software Engineer job postings: what employers ask for (2026)"
description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/software-engineer"
canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/postings/software-engineer
last_updated: 2026-09-10
---

# Software Engineer job postings: what employers ask for (2026)

> Live software engineer job postings measured from JobsPipe's index: 14.1% remote, 41.7% disclose pay, seniority mix, top skills and the industries hiring. Shares only, reproducible through the API.

**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/software-engineer

This page reads every active posting whose normalized title is Software Engineer across the ten boards JobsPipe collects and reports what those employers ask for: the seniority they target, whether the role is remote, whether pay is disclosed, the skills named in the text, and the industries, countries and company sizes behind the postings.

14.1% of these postings are marked remote, 41.7% state a salary or range, the most common seniority label is senior at 19.4%. Postings with no seniority label are counted in the denominator, so the seniority shares do not sum to one.

## Headline shares

- **Remote:** 14.1%
- **Pay disclosed:** 41.7%

## Seniority stated in the posting

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Entry level | 3.8% |
| Mid level | 3.0% |
| Senior | 19.4% |
| Lead or manager | 6.7% |
| Executive | <0.5% |

## Skills named in the text (top twelve)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| python | 44.5% |
| communication | 44.3% |
| java | 32.3% |
| ci/cd | 31.3% |
| aws | 30.7% |
| system-design | 28.3% |
| c++ | 24.6% |
| artificial-intelligence | 24.0% |
| agile | 23.3% |
| kubernetes | 22.6% |
| docker | 21.4% |
| leadership | 21.0% |

## Job function

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Engineering | 74.9% |
| Engineering and Information Technology | 18.5% |
| Information Technology | 1.9% |
| Information Technology and Engineering | 1.1% |
| Information Technology, Consulting, and Engineering | 0.7% |
| Other | 0.6% |
| IT & Security | <0.5% |
| Quality Assurance | <0.5% |

## Employer industry (ISIC division)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Software and IT services | 14.7% |
| Financial services | 5.2% |
| Electronics manufacturing | 2.8% |
| Other transport equipment | 2.6% |
| Employment and staffing | 2.1% |
| Healthcare | 1.4% |
| Retail trade | 1.4% |
| Electrical equipment | 1.3% |

## Country

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 52.3% |
| India | 10.3% |
| United Kingdom | 5.0% |
| Singapore | 3.2% |
| Germany | 2.9% |
| Canada | 2.8% |
| Brazil | 2.4% |
| Netherlands | 2.1% |

## Employer size, where known

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| 1-50 employees | 3.5% |
| 51-200 employees | 3.1% |
| 201-1000 employees | 6.8% |
| 1000+ employees | 29.1% |

## Employment type

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Full-time | 75.2% |
| Contract | 1.4% |
| Internship | 0.8% |

## Method

Denominator: active postings on the ten collected boards, grouped by canonical title (deduplicated by posting id). Counted on 2026-09-09. Postings are deduplicated by id, filtered to those not yet recorded as closed, and grouped on the field named in each heading. Only shares are published.

Reproduce the underlying rows:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"status":"active","limit":25,"job_title_or":["software engineer"]}'
```

## FAQ

### What share of software engineer job postings are remote?

14.1% of the active postings on this page carry a remote flag. The flag is read from the posting itself, so hybrid roles that never say remote are counted as on-site. Filter the API with remote set to true and the same scope to reproduce the figure.

### How many software engineer postings disclose salary?

41.7% state a salary or a range in the posting text or structured fields. Disclosure varies more by board and by jurisdiction than by role, so compare the figure with the board-level shares on the sources pages before reading it as a market signal.

### Which skills appear most in software engineer postings?

The most named skills are python (44.5%), communication (44.3%), java (32.3%), ci/cd (31.3%), aws (30.7%). Skills are extracted from the posting text against a curated lexicon, and a posting counts once per skill it names, so the shares overlap.

### Which industries hire the most software engineer roles?

By ISIC division, the largest shares are Software and IT services (14.7%), Financial services (5.2%), Electronics manufacturing (2.8%). Industry is resolved from the employer's classification where known, and postings without a classification are excluded from this cut.

### Which functions are employers in Software Engineer hiring for?

The largest functions by share of postings are Engineering (74.9%), Engineering and Information Technology (18.5%), Information Technology (1.9%), Information Technology and Engineering (1.1%). Function is assigned from the normalized title and the posting text.

### Where do these numbers come from?

From JobsPipe's live index of postings on the ten boards it collects, deduplicated by posting id and counted on 2026-09-09. Only shares are published; the underlying counts stay private. Every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API with the filters shown on this page.

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