MogiSoftware Engineer Job Postings Rise 29 Percent in US
The number of new job postings for Software Engineers in the US increased by 29 percent over the last 28 days.
By Andre Costa, Mogi Research · Oct 14, 2026
New job postings for Software Engineers in the US rose by twenty-nine percent, from five thousand three hundred twenty-one to six thousand eight hundred sixty-nine over the last 28 days. The overall volume of new job postings across all roles in the US saw a forty-two percent increase in the same period.
This increase in Software Engineer postings may reflect a growing demand for specific technical skills. It could also be influenced by employers actively filling roles to support new projects or product development. The data indicates a significant uptick in the number of positions being advertised.
Among the top roles, Full Stack Engineer postings surged by eighty-one percent and Data Engineer postings increased by one hundred twenty percent. Data Scientist postings also saw a fifty-five percent rise. Product Manager postings increased by forty percent.
The numbers
What are the top 5 roles by job volume in the US in the last 28 days?
| Name | Last 28 days | The 28 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 6,869 | 5,321 | +29% |
| Product Manager | 2,635 | 1,879 | +40% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 1,572 | 868 | +81% |
| Data Engineer | 1,055 | 480 | +120% |
| Data Scientist | 819 | 528 | +55% |
Top employers: JPMorgan Chase (1,323), Emerson (166), RTX (124)
Top states: Texas (783), California (739), New Jersey (451)
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 2026-10-14 with the 28 days before them. Covers US, 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 Andre Costa of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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