Writing a software engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 9,335 live software engineer postings, 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: 9,335
Employers: 2,331
Remote: 19%
Typical pay: $125k–275k
Verified live (7d): 8,583

What they ask for

Counted across 1,361 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python39%
Amazon Web Services30%
TypeScript30%
Kubernetes24%
Large Language Models22%
Oracle Java19%
Google Cloud Platform17%
C++15%
Microsoft Azure15%
Docker14%
JavaScript13%
Linux12%
Node.js12%
PostgreSQL11%

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

CORP-Corporate Office152
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway151
SpaceX132
Anduril Industries126
Databricks121
NVIDIA USA97
Walmart95
Openai88
Pennsylvania CVS Pharmacy, L.L.C.74
Eurofins71
Palo Alto Networks Inc62
Grab61

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