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Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026
- _tgxm 9mo agoData is ex-china. Good luck to everyone looking for a new role in the new year.
- dieselgate 9mo agoWhat does “ex-china” mean, excluding China? Edit: did a quick find-in-page on mobile for “china” and it appears 0 times. Though notably China is missing from the geographic charts
- _tgxm 9mo agoYes, excluding china. I don’t have a lot of companies based in china in my crawl data currently.
- seanmcdirmid 9mo agoThat makes sense, they have their own ecosystem for posting jobs there.
- dieselgate 9mo agoGot it, thanks. Good write up and presentation.
- nine_k 9mo agoDo they even hire engineers from abroad, or at least from the West?
- re-thc 9mo agoWhy not? Tiktok certainly needed engineers?
- analog31 9mo agoGood lord I though Indiana was leading the geographic listings for a moment.
- neogodless 9mo agoSo there are no companies on Earth using (or at least hiring for) C# or .NET then... ?
- journal 9mo agoI would not be surprised if the answer is NO.
- javawizard 9mo agoI would.
- reactordev 9mo agoThere are definitely jobs for C# folks, where is mostly Finance. At least from what I’ve seen. Love .Net but they tend to gravitate towards Microsoft Corporate. Most people, Java devs included, have incorporated another language into the quiver. Python perhaps. TypeScript for sure.
- none2585 9mo agoOr native mobile?
- _tgxm 9mo agojust didn't make the cutoff of top 10 categories I am tracking, I will update the report. iOS/android/c# are around same range of 2%
- acbart 9mo agoSo is there a place where this compares to data from last year, or previous years?
- _tgxm 9mo agoUnfortunately I don't have it because I started working on this last year but I am curious to see how AI skills surface as the year progresses.
- nine_k 9mo agoIt's interesting how (according to these charts) Bengaluru alone has more software engineering openings than the entire USA, and NYC has much more tech jobs than SF, on par with Pune. This, and the absence of .NET technologies from the list (as noted elsewhere in the thread) makes me take this whole article with a large grain of salt.
- _tgxm 9mo agoQuickly checking db, SF bay area has quite a bit more than NYC. There are clearly a lot of .NET jobs too but didnt make it to cutoff. I will see if I can include metro areas when I get a chance.
- darth_avocado 9mo agoI’m not sure how the list is being compiled but LinkedIn tells me there’s 10k jobs for “software engineer” in a 25 miles radius from me in the Bay Area. Either this data set is incomplete or LinkedIn is lying. Most likely it is both.
- _tgxm 9mo agoI got ~5K if I include Bay Area, tho my data only covers jobs that are active in the past 7d and am quite sure I have room to improve the crawl coverage. My hope is that this report is representative sample of trends.
- hshdhdhj4444 9mo agoSo many LinkedIn jobs are fake.
- phendrenad2 9mo ago> Bengaluru alone has more software engineering openings than the entire USA That wouldn't exactly be surprising IMHO.
- saxenaabhi 9mo agoLinkedin shows the following US: 77,000 European Economic Area: 58,000 India: 51,000 China: 48,000(probably undercounted) UK: 9,000 Canada: 7,000 Brazil: 6,000 Mexico: 4,000 Aus & NZ: 2,000 Eastern Africa: 300 Western Africa: 500 Southern Africa: 600 Northern Africa: 1,000 Within europe: Nordics: 3,000 Germany: 15,000 France: 8,000 Italy: 3,000 Poland: 5,000 Romania: 2,000
- coro_1 9mo agoCertainly this AI report is prone to error and needs clarification. But it's a great starting point. Would love to see the page expanded on with sources. This: business-software-applications: 20,248 software-engineering: 16,992 cybersecurity-engineering: 11,476 software-engineering-leadership: 10,608 data-and-analytics: 10,379 machine-learning-and-ai-engineering: 8,793 full-stack-software-engineering: 8,369 java-software-engineering: 8,114 software-quality-assurance-and-testing: 6,250 devops-engineering: 5,381 Should be broken down with a tree that shows location.
- KnuthIsGod 9mo agoAI generated slop.. Crap like this should be banned.
- visarga 9mo agoNot all AI generated outputs are slop, usually it's the low effort prompts that create slop. When you bring in external data or extensive human curation it is almost certainly not slop. I think many people put all AI outputs in the slop bucket but this is unfair to those who put a lot of thinking in their AI interactions. Slop is not given by the LLM, but by the human effort associated to that task. For code, it is the quality of the testing framework that sets the bar.
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- saxenaabhi 9mo agoI don't believe this sample to be representative. Linkedin shows the following US: 77,000 European Economic Area: 58,000 India: 51,000 China: 48,000(probably undercounted) UK: 9,000 Canada: 7,000 Brazil: 6,000 Mexico: 4,000 Aus & NZ: 2,000 Eastern Africa: 300 Western Africa: 500 Southern Africa: 600 Northern Africa: 1,000 Within europe: Nordics: 3,000 Germany: 15,000 France: 8,000 Italy: 3,000 Poland: 5,000 Romania: 2,000 Quick thoughts 1) US, Europe, China, India seem to be doing way better than the rest of the world 2) Germany still tops the charts in europe 3) China is probably undercounted, so I wonder if the real number is even higher than US. Would love to hear from people more familiar with chinese job market. 4) I wish Africa was doing better given the economic challenges