Remote Job Market Report October 2026
What 1,814 open remote roles at 379 companies say about pay, hiring and skills. Every number below is computed from the live listings on Jobzeni and updates automatically.
Remote salaries by role
Median of the midpoint of each listed range, for roles that publish a yearly USD salary. Roles with fewer than five such listings show no median.
| Role | Open roles | Median salary | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 246 | $197k | $48k–$340k |
| Sales | 177 | $210k | $20k–$390k |
| Product Manager | 70 | $193k | $60k–$335k |
| Backend | 68 | $197k | $135k–$264k |
| DevOps & Infrastructure | 60 | $210k | $100k–$341k |
| Customer Success | 58 | $115k | $50k–$500k |
| Frontend | 34 | $192k | $48k–$240k |
| Marketing | 33 | — | — |
| Customer Support | 31 | $108k | $50k–$195k |
| Security | 29 | $222k | $137k–$312k |
| Product Designer | 22 | — | — |
| Data Engineer | 19 | — | — |
| Legal | 18 | — | — |
| Data Scientist | 17 | $175k | $114k–$283k |
| AI Researcher | 17 | — | — |
| Finance | 17 | — | — |
| HR & People | 16 | — | — |
| Operations | 15 | — | — |
| Design | 11 | — | — |
| Content & Copywriting | 10 | — | — |
| AI Engineer | 9 | — | — |
| ML Engineer | 9 | — | — |
| Data Analyst | 9 | — | — |
| Embedded & Systems | 8 | — | — |
| Mobile | 6 | — | — |
| QA & Testing | 6 | — | — |
Who is hiring the most
- 1GitLab120 open roles
- 2Elastic112 open roles
- 3Grafana Labs81 open roles
- 4Canonical73 open roles
- 5EWOR GmbH51 open roles
- 6micro145 open roles
- 7Remote.com42 open roles
- 8Supabase26 open roles
- 9Databricks23 open roles
- 10Datadog22 open roles
Most in-demand skills
Open jobs whose description names the skill. One job can name several.
- SaaS394 jobs
- Observability386 jobs
- Python312 jobs
- AWS239 jobs
- Salesforce239 jobs
- B2B228 jobs
- Kubernetes216 jobs
- TypeScript187 jobs
- SQL185 jobs
- Google Cloud174 jobs
- LLM171 jobs
- CI/CD164 jobs
- Azure156 jobs
- React155 jobs
- PostgreSQL153 jobs
- DevOps140 jobs
- Elasticsearch122 jobs
- Linux120 jobs
- Grafana117 jobs
- Terraform103 jobs
Methodology and citing this report
Figures cover remote jobs currently listed on Jobzeni. A role posted several times for different locations counts once. This is a view of Jobzeni's listings, not of the whole remote market. Salaries are only counted when the listing publishes a yearly USD range.
More detail: remote work statistics by skill, country, company and role.
Cite as: Jobzeni, Remote Job Market Report, October 2026. https://jobzeni.com/remote-job-market-report