Job market insights

What the numbers say across our live corpus of 32,285 jobs at 300 companies — who pays best, which skills are in demand, and where the hiring is.

Published by FindRole · computed · Methodology

Key findings

  • As of November 2026, 64% of the 32,285 live US technology roles tracked by FindRole disclose a salary range (20,704 postings).
  • As of November 2026, the median advertised base salary across those roles is $183,250, with the middle 80% falling between $122,275 and $254,750 (20,703 postings with an annual range).
  • As of November 2026, 8.9% of tracked roles are fully remote, 18.1% are hybrid and 73.0% are onsite.
  • As of November 2026, the most requested skill across the corpus is Python, named in 14,151 postings.
  • As of November 2026, the highest-paying tracked job family is Engineering Manager, at a median advertised $261,500 across 159 priced postings.

These figures are free to quote and reuse, including commercially, with attribution and a link to findrole.ai/stats. Quote the date above with the number — the corpus is recomputed nightly. How these are computed.

Median pay
$183,250
20,703 roles with pay transparency
Typical range (10th–90th pct)
$122,275 – $254,750
band midpoint, annual roles
Remote roles
8.9%
18.1% hybrid · 73.0% onsite

How trustworthy are these listings?

Every role is scored 0–1 on believability — how unique it is (vs. near-duplicate reposts), how detailed its description is, how fresh it is, and how often it’s been reposted. Higher means more likely a real, current opening. This is the score behind the “listing trust” badge on every result.

0.394
median score · 32,285 roles
0.00.250.50.751.0
less believable ←  believability score  → more believable
High trust
72.1%
23,281 roles · score 7–10
Trusted
15.9%
5,149 roles · score 4–6
Low trust
11.9%
3,855 roles · score 1–3

Highest-paying cities

Median pay by metro (≥40 salary transparent roles each).

  1. 1. Mountain View, CA $238,250
    174 salary transparent roles
  2. 2. Cupertino, CA $231,150
    1,111 salary transparent roles
  3. 3. San Francisco, CA $225,000
    731 salary transparent roles
  4. 4. Foster City, CA $224,198
    62 salary transparent roles
  5. 5. Seattle, WA $222,500
    457 salary transparent roles

Best-paying companies

Average pay across each company's salary transparent roles (≥5 each).

  1. 1. Netflix $567,483
    115 salary transparent roles
  2. 2. Block $266,608
    39 salary transparent roles
  3. 3. Pinterest $263,761
    73 salary transparent roles
  4. 4. Arm Holdings $251,197
    107 salary transparent roles
  5. 5. Reddit $249,981
    89 salary transparent roles

Does remote pay more?

Median pay by work arrangement.

  1. Remote $195,442
    2,011 salary transparent roles
  2. Hybrid $177,250
    4,106 salary transparent roles
  3. Onsite $184,300
    14,587 salary transparent roles

Top-paying remote roles

The best-paid fully-remote openings right now.

  1. Staff/ Principal Software Engineer (L6/L7): AI Platform Model Serving · Netflix $1,290,000
  2. Distinguished Engineer, Scaled Out Inferencing · Nvidia $404,375
  3. Senior Director, Global Cyber Defense · DoorDash, Inc $393,300
  4. Senior Director, Data Science · Reddit $380,400
  5. Sr. Director, Customer Identity and Access Management · Zillow $379,500

Cities hiring the most

Where open roles are concentrated.

  1. 1. Santa Clara, CA 2,141
  2. 2. McLean, VA 1,429
  3. 3. New York, NY 1,408
  4. 4. Austin, TX 1,396
  5. 5. Cupertino, CA 1,123

Companies hiring the most

Employers with the most open roles.

  1. 1. Apple Inc 3,535
  2. 2. Capital One Financial 2,200
  3. 3. Booz Allen Hamilton 1,734
  4. 4. Nvidia 1,664
  5. 5. General Dynamics 1,364

Most in-demand skills

The skills mentioned across the most job postings.

Python 14,151 AWS 6,783 Java 6,391 CI/CD 5,863 Agile 4,896 SQL 4,853 Kubernetes 4,764 C++ 4,442 Azure 3,684 Linux 3,655

Job titles commanding the best pay

Median salary by standardized role (seniority-stripped; roles on ≥25 pay-transparent listings).

Engineering Manager 159 roles $261,500
Product Management Director 89 roles $257,800
Software Engineering Director 28 roles $256,650
Technical Program Management Director 27 roles $246,700
Machine Learning Engineer 270 roles $237,262
System Software Engineer 43 roles $235,750
Applied Researcher 25 roles $234,150
Solutions Engineer 31 roles $224,000
Architect 36 roles $222,500
Research Scientist 43 roles $216,000

Skills commanding the best pay

Average salary for roles requiring a below skill (skills on ≥25 pay transparent roles).

SPA Frameworks 29 roles $286,276
Evaluation Frameworks 30 roles $282,675
Model Compression 31 roles $278,589
ML Infrastructure 35 roles $274,978
Feature Stores 45 roles $273,499
Ranking 42 roles $272,759
Inference Optimization 32 roles $272,342
Diffusion Models 37 roles $267,248
Distributed Training 103 roles $267,092
TensorRT-LLM 51 roles $265,886

Role Aggregation Momentum

New role postings added per month.

564
May 2026
1,428
Jun 2026
2,575
Jul 2026
4,681
Aug 2026
9,574
Sep 2026
13,463
Oct 2026

What the corpus looks like

A semantic breakdown of 4,000 sampled roles, grouped by career field using our vector search models — not keyword matching, so related titles cluster even when they share no words.

Cloud & DevOps 38.7%
AI & Machine Learning 22.8%
Data & Analytics 8.5%
Cybersecurity 8.3%
Software Engineering 7.1%
Product & Design 2.9%
IT & Support 1.8%
Sales & Marketing 1.5%
Finance & Accounting 0.1%
Other / niche 8.3%

Which fields pay best

Median salary by career field, where each role is grouped by what it actually is — its nearest field in our vector search models — rather than its job title. The semantic answer to "which titles pay most," without depending on messy title text.

AI & Machine Learning $219,500
Product & Design $214,700
Sales & Marketing $204,425
Cloud & DevOps $193,000
Software Engineering $188,000
Data & Analytics $173,285
Cybersecurity $171,500
IT & Support $129,500

Pay figures use the midpoint of each listed salary band and count only annual roles with credible pay data. Figures refresh daily.