Writing a software engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 16,895 live software engineerpostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 16,895
Employers: 3,104
Remote: 17%
Typical pay: $125k–263k
Verified live (7d): 16,240

What they ask for

Counted across 1,460 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python53%
Amazon Web Services51%
Oracle Java44%
Microsoft Azure37%
Kubernetes36%
Docker35%
JavaScript34%
Google Cloud Platform30%
C++25%
TypeScript24%
NoSQL20%
Linux20%
C#17%
Agile15%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

capitalone.wd12.capital_one303
Walmart283
Anduril Industries169
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway166
NVIDIA USA161
CORP-Corporate Office151
SpaceX147
Databricks134
Colombia: Mastercard Colombia, Inc.131
Cisco Systems, Inc.113
Openai113
Palo Alto Networks Inc102

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