MogiSoftware Engineer Job Postings Rise 22%
Full Stack Engineer roles saw a 70% increase in US job postings.
By Maya Brooks, Mogi Research · Oct 18, 2026
Job postings for Software Engineer roles in the US rose twenty-two percent. There were six thousand three hundred ninety-nine postings in the latest four week period. This compares to five thousand two hundred forty-three postings in the prior period.
Full Stack Engineer roles saw a seventy percent surge. Data Engineer roles jumped one hundred ten percent. Data Scientist roles rose fifty-three percent.
These changes may reflect increased demand for specific skills. It could also be due to employers updating their job descriptions. The crawl may have found more postings than in the previous period.
The numbers
Most posted frontend engineer roles in the US over 4 weeks?
| Name | Last 28 days | The 28 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 6,399 | 5,243 | +22% |
| Product Manager | 2,583 | 1,837 | +41% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 1,382 | 815 | +70% |
| Data Engineer | 1,044 | 497 | +110% |
| Data Scientist | 793 | 518 | +53% |
Top employers: JPMorgan Chase (1,077), Emerson (166), L3Harris Technologies (111)
Top states: Texas (713), California (668), New Jersey (408)
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 2026-10-18 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 Maya Brooks of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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