MogiVirginia Software Engineer Postings Up Nine Percent
Minnesota saw a fifty percent rise in software engineer job postings in the last week.
By Maya Brooks, Mogi Research · Oct 22, 2026
Virginia added job postings for software engineers. Postings rose nine percent in the last week. This change followed a period where postings were up fifty percent in Minnesota.
Georgia saw job postings for software engineers increase by forty-two percent. Michigan added job postings with a twenty-eight percent rise. North Carolina postings went up twenty-two percent.
The reasons for these changes are not certain. Postings may have changed due to employer needs. It is also possible that reporting systems captured more data.
In Virginia, Booz Allen Hamilton, Leidos, and Mastercard posted software engineer roles. Virginia had fifty-one software engineer postings in the last week. This is an increase from forty-seven postings the week prior.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 51 | 47 | +9% |
| Minnesota | 15 | 10 | +50% |
| Georgia | 17 | 12 | +42% |
| Michigan | 23 | 18 | +28% |
| North Carolina | 22 | 18 | +22% |
Top roles: Software Engineer (51)
Top employers: Booz Allen Hamilton (8), Leidos (7), Mastercard (4)
Virginia 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 Maya Brooks of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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