📝TL;DR
→ Senior roles slip to 28.4% of openings (-10.8pp)
→ Mobile roles -12.9pp to 4.1% share
→ Austin leads at 3.3% of postings
→ Security p90 reaches $327k
Senior roles slip to 28.4% of openings (-10.8pp)
Based on 28.41 job postings analyzed over the last 4 weeks
🤝Soft Skills
Leadership5.4pp movement
Mentoring5.5%↑ 2.3pp
Technical Decision-Making3.6%↓ 0.3pp
Team Leadership2.1%↑ 1.1pp
Technical Leadership1.4%↑ 1.1pp
System Design1.4%↑ 0.7pp
Communication4.4pp movement
Cross-Functional Collaboration8.0%↓ 2.7pp
Written Communication4.3%↓ 0.8pp
Communication2.0%↑ 0.7pp
Problem Solving1.9%↑ 0.3pp
Methodology2.1pp movement
Agile3.6%↑ 2.1pp
📰Market News
The U.S. tech job market is undergoing a significant transformation, marked by a decline in overall job postings and remote work availability, alongside a notable shift in demand towards specialized skills. While total jobs and remote positions have seen a sharp decrease, programming languages like Rust, Git, Node.js, TypeScript, and Python are experiencing increased demand. The surge in AI-related job postings, even amidst a sluggish broader tech market and ongoing layoffs, highlights the critical importance of AI fluency for job seekers. Concurrently, the slowing overall job growth in the U.S. is influencing expectations for monetary policy, with increased bets on a Fed rate cut.
remoteRemote work -- not AI -- has sidelined recent college graduates, research findsNPR · 2026-06-01
New research suggests that the rise of remote work, rather than AI, is a primary factor in the increased unemployment rates among recent college graduates, as companies are less likely to hire inexperienced workers for remote roles where on-the-job training is harder to facilitate.
↗ remotePct -29.06% delta See all 7 articles on the market page →
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