MogiNorth Carolina Sees Biggest Growth in Software Engineer Job Postings
Software engineer job postings in North Carolina rose twenty two percent in the last week.
By Nathan Park, Mogi Research · Oct 22, 2026
First, job postings for software engineers in North Carolina rose twenty two percent. Postings in Minnesota saw a fifty percent rise, and Georgia saw a forty two percent rise. Michigan postings rose twenty eight percent, while Virginia postings rose nine percent.
This change in North Carolina may be due to increased hiring demand for software engineers. It could also reflect a broader geographic shift in tech roles. It is likely that a combination of factors influenced this rise.
In North Carolina, Cisco and Fidelity Investments each posted four software engineer roles. Ally posted one such role. These figures represent the number of new job postings found.
The data covers the period from October sixteenth to October twenty second, compared to the previous week. This analysis focuses on new job postings.
The numbers
Which US state saw the biggest growth in software engineer roles in the last week?
| Name | Last 7 days | The 7 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 22 | 18 | +22% |
| Minnesota | 15 | 10 | +50% |
| Georgia | 17 | 12 | +42% |
| Michigan | 23 | 18 | +28% |
| Virginia | 51 | 47 | +9% |
Top roles: Software Engineer (22)
Top employers: Cisco (4), Fidelity Investments (4), Ally (1)
North Carolina jobs by city
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 7 days to 2026-10-22 with the 7 days before them. Covers US, all states, Software 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 Nathan Park of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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