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Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026

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Re: Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026

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Post by coro_1 »

Certainly this AI report is prone to error and needs clarification. But it's a great starting point. Would love to see the page expanded on with sources. This:

    business-software-applications: 20,248
    software-engineering: 16,992
    cybersecurity-engineering: 11,476
    software-engineering-leadership: 10,608
    data-and-analytics: 10,379
    machine-learning-and-ai-engineering: 8,793
    full-stack-software-engineering: 8,369
    java-software-engineering: 8,114
    software-quality-assurance-and-testing: 6,250
    devops-engineering: 5,381
Should be broken down with a tree that shows location.

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Post by visarga »

KnuthIsGod wrote: post #22

AI generated slop.. Crap like this should be banned.

Not all AI generated outputs are slop, usually it's the low effort prompts that create slop. When you bring in external data or extensive human curation it is almost certainly not slop. I think many people put all AI outputs in the slop bucket but this is unfair to those who put a lot of thinking in their AI interactions. Slop is not given by the LLM, but by the human effort associated to that task. For code, it is the quality of the testing framework that sets the bar.

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Post by hshdhdhj4444 »

darth_avocado wrote: post #16
nine_k wrote: post #14

It's interesting how (according to these charts) Bengaluru alone has more software engineering openings than the entire USA, and NYC has much more tech jobs than SF, on par with Pune. This, and the absence of .NET technologies from the list (as noted elsewhere in the thread) makes me take this whole article with a large grain of salt.

I’m not sure how the list is being compiled but LinkedIn tells me there’s 10k jobs for “software engineer” in a 25 miles radius from me in the Bay Area. Either this data set is incomplete or LinkedIn is lying. Most likely it is both.

So many LinkedIn jobs are fake.

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Post by windex »

nine_k wrote: post #14

It's interesting how (according to these charts) Bengaluru alone has more software engineering openings than the entire USA, and NYC has much more tech jobs than SF, on par with Pune. This, and the absence of .NET technologies from the list (as noted elsewhere in the thread) makes me take this whole article with a large grain of salt.

India has a huge fake jobs problem. I think it is because of the number of "HR consultants" who constantly need to refresh their databases with "fresh" resumes. I've seen the same jobs being posted for over 8 years with no change whatsoever other than the keyword updates.

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Post by re-thc »

nine_k wrote: post #13
dieselgate wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does “ex-china” mean, excluding China? Edit: did a quick find-in-page on mobile for “china” and it appears 0 times. Though notably China is missing from the geographic charts

Do they even hire engineers from abroad, or at least from the West?

Why not? Tiktok certainly needed engineers?

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Post by joenot443 »

windex wrote: post #25
nine_k wrote: post #14

It's interesting how (according to these charts) Bengaluru alone has more software engineering openings than the entire USA, and NYC has much more tech jobs than SF, on par with Pune. This, and the absence of .NET technologies from the list (as noted elsewhere in the thread) makes me take this whole article with a large grain of salt.

India has a huge fake jobs problem. I think it is because of the number of "HR consultants" who constantly need to refresh their databases with "fresh" resumes. I've seen the same jobs being posted for over 8 years with no change whatsoever other than the keyword updates.

That's a funny mechanism. So these are fake jobs that HR consultants (recruiters?) use to harvest resumes?

What's the angle here?

Re: Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026

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Post by Our_Benefactors »

joenot443 wrote: post #28
windex wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

India has a huge fake jobs problem. I think it is because of the number of "HR consultants" who constantly need to refresh their databases with "fresh" resumes. I've seen the same jobs being posted for over 8 years with no change whatsoever other than the keyword updates.

That's a funny mechanism. So these are fake jobs that HR consultants (recruiters?) use to harvest resumes? What's the angle here?

They can submit those resumes to other positions.

This type of recruiter often is paid based on # of resumes furnished, not actually filling the position, so the incentives are completely misaligned.

Re: Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026

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Post by dieselgate »

sp1982 wrote: post #5
dieselgate wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does “ex-china” mean, excluding China? Edit: did a quick find-in-page on mobile for “china” and it appears 0 times. Though notably China is missing from the geographic charts

Yes, excluding china. I don’t have a lot of companies based in china in my crawl data currently.

Got it, thanks. Good write up and presentation.
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