Updated daily · data as of October 29, 2026
Job market report: what 36,837 open jobs say right now
MANY Hired imports every open job from the career pages of 377 employers each day. Here is what those postings show about pay, remote work, skills and who is hiring, with links to the data behind each number. Free to cite with a link to this page.
Key findings
- 55% of postings ask for AI among their main skills, from machine learning roles to sales and operations jobs that now expect people to work with AI tools.
- 58% of postings state pay, as more US states require salary ranges in job ads. See median pay by job and city.
- 22% are remote. The rest are on-site or hybrid; remote shares by job are below.
- Best-paid kind of job: Physician, with a median posted salary of $350,000 across 71 postings.
- San Francisco, CA has the most openings (5,334), followed by New York, NY (4,853).
Jobs with the most openings
| Job | Open jobs | Remote | Median salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 4,593 | 23% | $218K |
| Sales | 4,410 | 28% | $170K |
| Director and VP | 2,232 | 26% | $240K |
| Account executive | 2,057 | 34% | $170K |
| Operations | 2,024 | 16% | $155K |
| Retail | 1,278 | 3% | $98K |
| Marketing | 1,271 | 25% | $172K |
| Product manager | 1,219 | 31% | $225K |
| Solutions engineer and architect | 1,179 | 41% | $195K |
| Finance and accounting | 955 | 18% | $155K |
| Machine learning and AI engineer | 869 | 23% | $250K |
| Program and project manager | 859 | 19% | $181K |
| Legal and compliance | 766 | 21% | $205K |
| Manufacturing | 726 | 4% | $165K |
Highest-paying jobs
| Job | Median salary | Postings with pay |
|---|---|---|
| Physician | $350K | 71 |
| Psychiatrist | $350K | 55 |
| Engineering Manager | $255K | 417 |
| Machine Learning & AI Engineer | $250K | 457 |
| Director & VP | $240K | 1,443 |
| Research Scientist | $238K | 205 |
| Product Manager | $225K | 800 |
| Data Scientist | $221K | 224 |
| Software Engineer | $218K | 2,592 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $216K | 138 |
Jobs with at least 30 US-dollar postings that list a salary. Midpoint of each posted range.
Most-requested skills
- sales 10,749
- compliance 5,069
- recruiting 4,965
- marketing 4,825
- automation 4,692
- product roadmap 4,594
- manufacturing 3,948
- go-to-market 3,317
- onboarding 2,988
- retail 2,936
Most-requested tools
- machine learning 3,215
- analytics 2,886
- APIs 2,764
- Python 2,708
- prototyping 2,357
- observability 2,274
- backend 2,186
- LLMs 1,778
- troubleshooting 1,718
- Salesforce 1,656
Companies hiring the most
- Airwallex 400
- ALO 400
- Anduril 400
- Anthropic 400
- Axon 400
- Cloudflare 400
- Databricks 400
- DoorDash USA 400
- Elastic 400
- Equinox 400
Cities with the most jobs
- San Francisco, CA 5,334
- New York, NY 4,853
- Silicon Valley, CA 3,143
- London, UK 1,846
- Seattle, WA 1,661
- Los Angeles, CA 1,519
- Chicago, IL 919
- Austin, TX 872
- Washington, DC 798
- Boston, MA 735
About this data
The numbers cover every open job on MANY Hired on October 29, 2026: listings imported daily from the Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and SmartRecruiters career pages of 377 employers, plus jobs posted directly. Skills are the main skills and tools named in each posting. Pay figures are midpoints of the ranges employers post in US dollars, so they are advertised pay, not reported earnings, and usually leave out bonus and equity. "Remote" counts postings that say the job can be done remotely. The page refreshes automatically; please cite it as "MANY Hired job market report" with a link to https://manyhired.com/job-market.