Job market insights

What the numbers say across our live corpus of 22,560 jobs at 272 companies — who pays best, which skills are in demand, and where the hiring is.

Median pay
$180,025
across 16,800 priced roles
Typical range (10th–90th pct)
$125,000 – $254,950
band midpoint, annual roles
Remote roles
19.2%
16.4% hybrid · 64.4% onsite

Highest-paying job titles

Average pay by role title (≥3 listings each).

  1. 1. IBM Technology and Red Hat Alliance Lead $1,000,000
    7 listings
  2. 2. Director Product Management, Banking + AP $382,500
    3 listings
  3. 3. Staff Frontend Engineer, Stripe Dashboard $339,000
    4 listings
  4. 4. Enterprise Account Executive, Growth $320,000
    5 listings
  5. 5. AVP-Member of Technical Staff (wireline) $318,600
    4 listings

Best-paying companies

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

  1. 1. IBM $536,335
    17 priced roles
  2. 2. Netflix $519,892
    102 priced roles
  3. 3. Sanofi $379,416
    7 priced roles
  4. 4. Cloudflare, Inc $275,625
    48 priced roles
  5. 5. Nubank $266,600
    5 priced roles

Top-paying remote roles

The best-paid fully-remote openings right now.

  1. Senior Machine Learning Manager, Merchandising and Content Understanding · Netflix $935,500
  2. Director, Technical Program Management - Ads Foundations, Supply & Decisioning · Netflix $860,000
  3. Research Engineer 5/6 – AI for Member Systems · Netflix $833,000
  4. Senior Manager, Content Promotion & Distribution Data Engineering · Netflix $737,500
  5. Manager, Member Experience - Ads DSE · Netflix $721,500

Cities hiring the most

Where open roles are concentrated.

  1. 1. Costa Mesa, CA 1,114
  2. 2. Santa Clara, CA 923
  3. 3. Redmond, WA 888
  4. 4. Austin, TX 811
  5. 5. San Francisco, CA 803

Most in-demand skills

The skills mentioned across the most job postings.

CI/CD 15,461 Python 14,959 Kubernetes 10,731 AWS 10,605 Docker 9,736 PostgreSQL 8,627 Terraform 6,519 Git 6,476 Azure 5,275 Prometheus 5,108

Which skills command the best pay

Average pay of every priced role listing each skill (≥25 listings).

Redfish $276,656
IPMI $252,342
NVIDIA $252,339
MESOS $250,172
High-Performance Computing $247,190
TensorRT $246,188
Recommendation Systems $245,578
RLHF $245,397
Distributed Training $245,225
Hugging Face Transformers $244,524

Hiring momentum

New postings added per month.

281
Jan 2026
365
Feb 2026
1,152
Mar 2026
4,455
Apr 2026
5,112
May 2026
11,189
Jun 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.

AI & Machine Learning 30.1%
Sales & Marketing 14.9%
Software Engineering 12.2%
Data & Analytics 10.6%
Cloud & DevOps 9.2%
Operations & Logistics 6.2%
Healthcare 5.3%
Product & Design 4.0%
Cybersecurity 3.2%
IT & Support 2.9%
Finance & Accounting 1.5%
Other / niche 0.1%

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