MogiUnited Kingdom Backend Engineer Postings Fall 17 Percent
Job postings for backend engineers in the United Kingdom saw a decrease in the past week.
By Theo Laurent, Mogi Research · Oct 17, 2026
Job postings for Backend Engineers in the United Kingdom fell by seventeen percent in the last seven days. There were fifteen postings in the most recent seven day period, down from eighteen in the prior week.
This decrease may be attributed to several factors. It is possible that hiring in this specific role has slowed, or that the crawl identified fewer new postings during this window. The overall number of new Backend Engineer jobs posted across all countries also saw a fall of five percent.
In comparison, France saw a fifty percent rise in Backend Engineer postings, while India added job postings for the role with a twenty seven percent increase.
The numbers
Which country saw the biggest increase in backend engineer jobs in the last 7 days?
| Name | Last 7 days | The 7 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 15 | 18 | -17% |
| France | 15 | 10 | +50% |
| India | 52 | 41 | +27% |
| United States | 82 | 97 | -15% |
| Canada | 19 | 24 | -21% |
Top roles: Backend Engineer (15)
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 7 days to 2026-10-17 with the 7 days before them. Covers all countries, all states, Backend Engineer. 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 Theo Laurent of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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