Job market reports · Work arrangement · August 2026
Remote tech jobs
3,263 live technical postings advertised as remote in August 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.
Which roles are hiring
Share of remote technical postings by role.
- 1Software Engineer42.2%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer12%
- 3Security Engineer8%
- 4Data Scientist7.3%
- 5Data Engineer5.9%
- 6Data Analyst5.5%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer4.4%
- 8AI Engineer4.4%
- 9Full-Stack Engineer4.1%
- 10Backend Engineer3.8%
- 11Frontend Engineer2.4%
What it pays
Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role advertised as remote. Role mix drives this as much as location does — a metro heavy in senior infrastructure roles will out-earn one heavy in analytics regardless of cost of living.
Skills in demand here
Share of postings in this market naming each skill.
- 1python20.2%
- 2aws12.8%
- 3kubernetes9.9%
- 4ci/cd9.5%
- 5typescript8.9%
- 6sql8.4%
- 7go7.8%
- 8terraform7.3%
- 9react7.2%
- 10distributed systems7.1%
- 11observability6.2%
- 12machine learning5.9%
Who is hiring here
Employers with the most open technical postings in this market.
How we counted
457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.