MogiAustralia fastest growing country for software engineers
Job postings for software engineers in Australia saw a 55% rise in the 28 days to October 27.
By Zara Ahmed, Mogi Research · Oct 27, 2026
October 27, London. Job postings for software engineers in Australia rose 55%. Postings in Greece surged 225% and Colombia added 90% more postings.
The number of software engineer postings in Australia increased to 99 from 64. This change may reflect increased employer demand for these roles.
The rise in postings could also be attributed to a seasonal increase in hiring activity or a shift in how job boards are crawled. Similar growth was seen in China, which added 61% more postings, and France, which added 56% more postings.
The numbers
Fastest growing country for software engineers?
| Name | Last 28 days | The 28 before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 99 | 64 | +55% |
| Greece | 39 | 12 | +225% |
| Colombia | 19 | 10 | +90% |
| China | 113 | 70 | +61% |
| France | 64 | 41 | +56% |
Top roles: Software Engineer (99)
Counts are job postings, not hires, from company career sites that Mogi's crawl found. Compares the 28 days to 2026-10-27 with the 28 days before them. Covers all countries, 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 Zara Ahmed of Mogi Research, with AI from the table above. Every figure in it comes from that table.
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