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Job market reports · Work arrangement · October 2026

Remote tech jobs

4,227 live technical postings advertised as remote in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of remote technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer39.7%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer12%
  3. 3Data Scientist7.9%
  4. 4Security Engineer7.9%
  5. 5Data Engineer6.6%
  6. 6Data Analyst5.9%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer5.3%
  8. 8AI Engineer4.5%
  9. 9Full-Stack Engineer4.4%
  10. 10Backend Engineer3.4%
  11. 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.

Disclosed pay — Remote
n = 1,340
10th
$139k
25th
$165k
Median
$193k
75th
$225k
90th
$258k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python27.3%
  2. 2aws19.8%
  3. 3kubernetes14.1%
  4. 4go12.8%
  5. 5sql12.1%
  6. 6ci/cd11.6%
  7. 7typescript11.1%
  8. 8terraform10.1%
  9. 9distributed systems8.9%
  10. 10react8.6%
  11. 11gcp8.5%
  12. 12observability8%

Who is hiring here

Employers with the most open technical postings in this market.

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.