Writing a software engineer resume

Everything below is counted from 20,191 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: 20,191
Employers: 3,234
Remote: 16%
Typical pay: $120k–260k
Verified live (7d): 18,089

What they ask for

Counted across 1,454 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Python44%
Amazon Web Services39%
Oracle Java38%
C++36%
Docker26%
Kubernetes26%
Microsoft Azure25%
C#24%
Linux23%
JavaScript23%
Agile21%
.NET18%
GitHub17%
REST API14%

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

Speechify1,185
capitalone.wd12.capital_one353
Walmart329
Anduril Industries185
Cisco Systems, Inc.166
globalhr.wd5.rec_rtx_ext_gateway162
CORP-Corporate Office149
Palo Alto Networks Inc114
Openai113
U.S. Bank National Association102
Grab94
Booz Allen Hamilton_United States92

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