Writing a software engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 16,227 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: 16,227
Employers: 3,047
Remote: 17%
Typical pay: $125k–264k
Verified live (7d): 15,511

What they ask for

Counted across 1,439 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Oracle Java51%
Python50%
Amazon Web Services47%
Kubernetes36%
Microsoft Azure35%
Docker33%
JavaScript33%
Google Cloud Platform31%
TypeScript29%
NoSQL21%
C++18%
Apache Kafka14%
Large Language Models14%
GitHub12%

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_one302
Walmart277
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway167
Anduril Industries167
NVIDIA USA154
CORP-Corporate Office151
SpaceX147
Databricks134
Colombia: Mastercard Colombia, Inc.124
Openai108
Cisco Systems, Inc.107
Palo Alto Networks Inc100

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