Here in my side of the Europe, employer is having really difficult time finding any candidates for over 3 years. So last month they approved to try and hire on other countries in EU for these openings(they have presence in multiple EU nations and teams are distributed).

Infact the market is so good, that people living few blocks from the office premises(multiple locations) immediately decline once HR mentions that they need to come to office at least once every 2-3 weeks.

Then we have some junior interviews where they are asking more than what our mid and some new seniors make and 100% WFH, while most of us are in office most days(heck I mentioned in some other thread a while ago that I even commute 2h each way to/from work, cumulative 4h on office days).

I think, market is mostly volatile now and some are enjoying it while the others are suffering.

Also, let me not start the rant about now 99% of startups and SME now posts for only Senior Engineer/SWE with pay of juniors from 5 years ago or something, no wonder people won't apply.