The market, live
IT & software development in Redmond
Today's reading. A posting seen on several boards counts once, and postings that vanished no longer count. That is why this differs from job board counters.
1,144open roles
269this week+301 % vs last week
71 %fully remote
37 jmedian age
[ listings ]
The latest listings in Redmond
[ pay ]
What postings advertise
Observed median: 125,000 USD a year, 105,000 to 135,000 for the middle half. From 185 postings that publish a range.
Only 42% of postings here show pay. Treat this as a negotiating anchor, not a market truth: postings that publish a range are not the same as those that stay silent.
[ in demand ]
The most requested skills
Hard skills only: “team player” appears in nine postings out of ten and helps nobody decide what to learn.
| Skill | Share of postings |
|---|---|
| Bac+3 | 74 % |
| Python | 25 % |
| Observabilité | 20 % |
| C++ | 17 % |
| Linux | 15 % |
| Excel | 15 % |
| Kubernetes | 10 % |
| Bac+5 | 9 % |
| Jira | 6 % |
| SQL | 5 % |
| Bash | 5 % |
| Rust | 5 % |
| SAP | 5 % |
| Doctorat | 5 % |
[ where ]
Where these roles are open
| City | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|
| Stockholm | 1,297 | see |
| San Francisco | 904 | see |
| London | 694 | see |
| Zürich | 642 | see |
| Singapore | 619 | see |
| New York City | 601 | see |
| Paris | 547 | see |
| Göteborg | 497 | see |
| Montréal | 434 | see |
| Bengaluru | 415 | see |
| Hawthorne | 357 | see |
| Dublin | 356 | see |
| Berlin | 265 | see |
| Bern | 257 | see |
Who hires most here
SpaceX (220), openai (81), truelogic (37), render (23), Stripe (21), Bright Vision Technologies (20), IonQ (18), docker (18)