Ashney Market Intelligence · Market report · 31 August 2026 Weekly

Software Engineer

in the United States

Who is hiring, how senior the roles are, and how fast they fill.

The read

Posting is up 36% from the month before, at 6,536 new roles. The median role is filled within 30 days.

01 — The numbers

By the numbers

16,750Open roles
6,536 ↑36% vs prior Posted / 30 days
30Median days open
12%Explicitly remote
02 — Who is hiring

The companies with the most open roles

These 16,750 roles are spread across 3,495 companies. The eight below post the most; together they are 10% of the total, so hiring here is fragmented, no single employer dominates. The rest sit at hundreds of companies with a handful of openings each.

Top 8 of 3,495 companies hiring
381
310
297
175
151
144
132
112
NGCAndurilBrightvisiontechnologiesSpeechifyOpenAIShield AIAppleBoeing
03 — Seniority

Where these roles sit on the ladder

By title, across the 16,750 open roles. Seniority is inferred from the job title, so read it as a shape, not a precise count.

Principal 26%Lead 5%Senior 29%Mid / unspecified 39%Junior 2%
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How we count

Ashney reads companies' own applicant-tracking systems directly, hourly, not job boards. These counts are for Software Engineer roles in the United States, deduplicated across reposts and staffing-agency listings. Seniority is inferred from the job title. This report refreshes weekly; the Ashney app scores new roles for members hourly. Figures as of 31 August 2026.

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