State of the software engineering job market in 2024

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2024-10-22 16:00:06

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How’s the market for software engineers and engineering managers doing? During the past year, this publication took the pulse of tech recruitment pretty regularly:

Even so, nothing beats high-quality data for insights. To get some, The Pragmatic Engineer and two companies whose bread-and-butter is tracking employment stats and jobs data, have collaborated, and both businesses were kind enough to create the resulting unique data sets and charts for this article. They are:

Live Data Technologies: a startup based in California, which has developed a method of prompt-engineering major search engines to capture near-real-time data on employment changes in the US. They leverage this publicly available information to monitor 1M+ job changes, and 300M+ employment validations monthly, using a proprietary process. They can track hiring trends across companies, roles, functions, levels, industries, and locations.