The remote-first job market is a smaller pond than the discourse suggests.
12,798 active tech jobs across the 1,056 companies we track on remoet.dev. 1,788 of them are fully remote. That is 14%. The other 86% want you in a chair somewhere, full or part time. The May numbers are below.
Where the work actually is
| Location policy | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fully remote | 1,788 | 14% |
| Remote, region-restricted | 2,611 | 20% |
| Hybrid | 2,079 | 16% |
| Onsite | 1,493 | 12% |
| Unspecified | 4,827 | 38% |
The "unspecified" bucket is the one to be honest about. Most career-page scrapers don't normalize location policy, and in practice those jobs tend onsite or region-restricted. Read the listing before you celebrate.
Hiring is concentrated
The top 15 companies have 3,143 open roles between them. Almost a quarter of the entire pool.
- Databricks, 407
- Speechify, 381
- OpenAI, 256
- Airwallex, 222
- Canonical, 216
- Snowflake, 203
- Anthropic, 175
- Roblox, 171
- Relativity, 166
- Zscaler, 162
- MongoDB, 161
- Cloudflare, 156
- Sezzle, 147
- Stripe, 142
- Nebius, 136
If you have not starred the 30 to 50 companies that match your stack, you are missing where the jobs actually are. Job-board search is keyword soup. The leverage is in narrowing to the cluster, then watching that cluster.
What pays
Salary bands by tech, from 3,338 postings with disclosed USD comp. The data skews toward US states with pay-transparency laws (CA, CO, NY, WA), so absolute levels run high. Filtered to techs with at least 50 postings.
| Tech | Avg low | Avg high | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyTorch | $237k | $381k | 75 |
| LLM | $214k | $296k | 150 |
| Rust | $210k | $285k | 109 |
| Spark | $187k | $267k | 164 |
| GCP | $187k | $251k | 321 |
| Azure | $185k | $250k | 227 |
| Snowflake | $181k | $242k | 73 |
| Python | $181k | $252k | 748 |
| Kubernetes | $176k | $249k | 385 |
| Go | $176k | $236k | 234 |
| Scala | $175k | $248k | 94 |
The rank is more useful than the absolute numbers. PyTorch leads. AI ecosystem stuff (LLM, AI, Spark) clusters in the $180k to $290k band. Python on its own pays the same as Go. The premium is in what you stack on top of Python, not Python itself. If you are getting offers in the $130k to $160k range and the table above looks alien, the gap is geographic and disclosure-driven, not skill-driven.
The junior squeeze
328 active postings tag themselves as junior-level. About 2.6% of everything open. The split:
- Senior: 5,707
- Mid: 1,936
- Junior: 328
Senior outnumbers junior seventeen to one. If you are in your first three years, the market is genuinely tight for you. The play is not to apply harder. The play is to treat the junior subset as your working set, sort by company-stack match, and apply where you have a credible argument.
Why this report is shorter than last month
We expanded coverage substantially through April. Month-over-month job totals look inflated until the new sources stabilize. Treat absolute numbers as current snapshots, not as growth signals, until the next report.
If you want to slice this data yourself by stack, location, or experience level, connect an AI agent to Remoet via MCP and ask it directly. It is faster than any filter UI and a lot more honest than keyword search.
Full report on the Remoet blog.