Software Engineer job postings surge
New job postings for Software Engineers rose by fifty three percent in the last four weeks.
By Mateo Ruiz, Mogi Research · Oct 13, 2026
New job postings for Software Engineers rose by fifty three percent, from nine thousand and eighty five to thirteen thousand nine hundred and twelve. Overall new job postings across all roles saw a surge of fifty nine percent in the same period.
This rise may be due to increased demand for technical talent. It could also reflect a seasonal uptick in hiring activity. Likely, companies are expanding their engineering teams to support new projects.
The data also shows significant increases for Product Managers, up fifty four percent, and Full Stack Engineers, up sixty eight percent. Top employers posting for Software Engineers included JPMorgan Chase and Accenture.
The numbers
Which role families have the highest volume of new postings across all countries?
| Name | Last 28 days | The 28 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 13,912 | 9,085 | +53% |
| Product Manager | 4,889 | 3,173 | +54% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 3,685 | 2,198 | +68% |
| Data Engineer | 2,890 | 1,634 | +77% |
| DevOps Engineer | 2,300 | 1,436 | +60% |
Top employers: JPMorgan Chase (2,193), Accenture (411), Emerson (372)
Top states: Texas (798), California (762), New Jersey (506)
Software Engineer jobs by city
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 28 days to 2026-10-13 with the 28 days before them. Covers all countries, all states, all roles. Employers with fewer than five postings in the last eight weeks are grouped together and left out of the rankings. The company details come from the crawl's company profiles, where the crawl has one.
Written by Mateo Ruiz of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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