MogiSoftware Engineer Job Postings Fall
Job postings for Software Engineers decreased by fifteen percent last week.
By Owen Gallagher, Mogi Research · Oct 16, 2026
Job postings for Software Engineers saw a fall of fifteen percent. There were two thousand six hundred seventy-one postings last week, down from three thousand one hundred fifty-six the week before. This is a net decrease of four hundred eighty-five postings.
Frontend Engineer postings rose by thirty-one percent, from one hundred thirty-seven to one hundred seventy-nine. Analytics Engineer postings increased by twenty-six percent, from eighty-eight to one hundred eleven. These changes may reflect shifts in employer demand for these specific skill sets.
The overall number of new job postings across all roles decreased by seventeen percent. This change may be influenced by seasonal factors or specific employer hiring freezes. Software Engineer roles accounted for the largest number of postings in both periods.
The numbers
What role families saw the most growth in job postings globally last week?
| Name | Last 7 days | The 7 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 2,671 | 3,156 | -15% |
| Frontend Engineer | 179 | 137 | +31% |
| Analytics Engineer | 111 | 88 | +26% |
| Product Owner | 273 | 272 | +0% |
| Data Engineer | 574 | 673 | -15% |
Top employers: Accenture (395), Raydar (55), Jobgether (54)
Top states: California (201), New York (61), Texas (42)
Software Engineer jobs by city
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 7 days to 2026-10-16 with the 7 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 Owen Gallagher of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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