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Job market reports · Work arrangement · September 2026

Remote tech jobs

3,898 live technical postings advertised as remote in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of remote technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer40.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer12.2%
  3. 3Security Engineer7.5%
  4. 4Data Engineer7.3%
  5. 5Data Scientist6.8%
  6. 6Data Analyst6.1%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer4.8%
  8. 8AI Engineer4.7%
  9. 9Machine Learning Engineer4%
  10. 10Backend Engineer3.9%
  11. 11Frontend Engineer2.5%

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 = 1,252
10th
$140k
25th
$166k
Median
$193k
75th
$225k
90th
$257k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python29.8%
  2. 2aws21.1%
  3. 3kubernetes14.8%
  4. 4go13.2%
  5. 5ci/cd13.1%
  6. 6sql12.5%
  7. 7typescript12.3%
  8. 8terraform11.6%
  9. 9react9.4%
  10. 10gcp9.1%
  11. 11distributed systems9%
  12. 12llm8.6%

Who is hiring here

Employers with the most open technical postings in this market.

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.