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From my data of ~1.8M jobs, "Software Engineer" as a job title in postings are down ~25% and "Senior Software Engineer" jobs are down ~10% comparing the first 2 months of 2026 with 2025

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Wondering what the data would say if you compare it to the numbers in 2015. It definitely feels there are more jobs now (at least from my POV)

Yea totally agree, would like a 10+ year chart. I only had good data from the beginning of 2025

Where is your data from? I saw comparisons of job postings from Jan 2025 to Jan 2026 and SWE was trending upwards: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

I run a job search site (UnlistedJobs) which monitors about 200k company website career pages. So my data comes from that and I've normalized it to look at the same group of companies (for analysis sake). Ah yea I've seen that Indeed chart circulating.

I'm in the process of putting together a market analysis tool with my data since it isn't biased to one platform (not saying that Indeed data is wrong though). Mine will only go back to the beginning of 2025 tho

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