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A practical view of hiring volume, role competition, salary visibility, locations, skills, and the employers shaping remote work.
Explore your salary and opportunity Aug 24, 2026 to Sep 23, 2026 · 30 days9,563unique active remote jobs
1,056companies hiring
49.5%salary visibility
329configured active sources
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Executive brief
What stands out now
Three signals from the latest snapshot, selected directly from the published inventory and candidate-demand data.
Most new listings
Product
5,060 roles first observed during this report period.Most openings per candidate
Patient support
3,284.6 jobs per 100 active candidate profiles.Access and pay
Who can apply, and what the work pays
Location eligibility and compensation are reported separately, with coverage and sample sizes visible beside every estimate.
65.9% of listings state a timezone.
Median annualized salary across 4,731 salary-listed jobs.
6,107 newly observed and 0 confirmed closed in 30 days.
Hiring eligibility
Worldwide3.1%
292 jobsMultiple countries9%
857 jobsUnited States only60.4%
5,773 jobsSingle-country restricted25.5%
2,437 jobsLocation not structured2.1%
204 jobsAnnualized salary bands
Under $75k14%
661 jobs$75k-$99k9.8%
466 jobs$100k-$149k22.4%
1,061 jobs$150k-$199k24.3%
1,148 jobs$200k+29.5%
1,395 jobsBased only on listings with usable USD compensation. Coverage: 49.5%.
Median listed pay by role
| Role | Median | Salary visibility | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontend | $184,650 | 48.9% | n=454 |
| Design and creative | $183,000 | 50.6% | n=1,971 |
| DevOps | $180,940 | 53.3% | n=2,227 |
| Mobile engineering | $180,000 | 54.6% | n=381 |
| Legal | $179,650 | 58% | n=2,515 |
| Backend | $179,500 | 53.3% | n=2,009 |
| HR and recruiting | $170,000 | 65.9% | n=2,137 |
| Security | $166,500 | 53.4% | n=3,214 |
| Software | $165,000 | 51.8% | n=3,945 |
| Data | $163,800 | 52.7% | n=3,604 |
Listed pay vs. candidate minimums
| Role | Listed median | Candidate minimum | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design and creative | $183,000 n=1971 | $20,000 n=1627 | +815% |
| Writing and content | $157,560 n=672 | $24,000 n=1148 | +556.5% |
| Marketing | $156,500 n=3217 | $29,100 n=2062 | +437.8% |
| Sales | $163,600 n=2352 | $36,000 n=913 | +354.4% |
| QA and testing | $159,035 n=928 | $35,000 n=360 | +354.4% |
| Legal | $179,650 n=2515 | $40,000 n=401 | +349.1% |
| HR and recruiting | $170,000 n=2137 | $40,000 n=192 | +325% |
| Customer support | $148,378 n=3673 | $35,000 n=2732 | +323.9% |
Market movement
What is gaining momentum
New and closed listings reveal flow; skills and employers show where that movement is concentrated.
Median age of currently active roles.
Median observed lifetime for roles closed this period.
Share of active jobs held by the ten largest hiring companies.
Skills adding the most new jobs
Python843 new+198
SQL694 new+169
Java357 new+153
AWS1,008 new+135
Distributed Systems276 new+130
Communication526 new+125
Kubernetes447 new+120
SaaS373 new+111
Companies with fresh hiring
Samsara212 active156 new
Gitlab189 active152 new
Affirm187 active120 new
Elevenlabs163 active118 new
Coinbase151 active93 new
Grafanalabs143 active65 new
Twilio136 active94 new
Assist World132 active139 new
Work shape
How employers define remote roles
Seniority and employment arrangements are normalized from current listings. Additional fields appear when source coverage is sufficient.
Seniority
Senior50.4%
4,819 jobsMid level23.9%
2,288 jobsLead / principal11.9%
1,137 jobsNot stated7.8%
742 jobsEntry level4.6%
440 jobsExecutive1.4%
137 jobsEmployment type
Full time90.2%
8,622 jobsContract20.8%
1,992 jobsPart time5.5%
529 jobsInternship0.1%
14 jobs10990.1%
5 jobsPer Diem0%
3 jobsW20%
3 jobsPermanent0%
1 jobsFee For Service0%
1 jobsSelf Employed0%
1 jobsEmployment Of Record0%
1 jobsB2B Arrangements0%
1 jobsFixed-Term0%
1 jobsSchedule
Flexible38%
3,631 jobsNot stated33%
3,152 jobsFixed27%
2,578 jobsAsync-first1.9%
179 jobsShift-based0.1%
14 jobsAsync / flexible0.1%
9 jobsBenefits stated
Dental insurance7.6%
731 jobsVision insurance7.3%
695 jobsParental leave5.8%
552 jobsHealth insurance5.5%
526 jobsRetirement plan5.1%
491 jobsPaid time off5.1%
488 jobsMedical insurance4.3%
407 jobsCandidate behavior
What candidates do next
Privacy-safe activity from WFH.team helps distinguish interest from actual application progress.
Roles saved during this period.
Recorded outbound application starts.
Published after 25 reports.
Engagement by role
| Role | Events | Saves | Apply clicks | Applications | Per 100 jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 1,844 | 503 | 613 | 490 | 24.2 |
| Product | 1,835 | 493 | 621 | 484 | 23 |
| Customer support | 1,832 | 501 | 621 | 492 | 25.7 |
| Operations | 1,735 | 471 | 599 | 462 | 23.6 |
| Healthcare admin | 1,519 | 415 | 503 | 408 | 23.4 |
| Data | 1,476 | 400 | 491 | 393 | 21.6 |
| Customer success | 1,393 | 377 | 456 | 372 | 21.8 |
| Marketing | 1,368 | 367 | 454 | 365 | 22.4 |
| Security | 1,264 | 346 | 409 | 340 | 21 |
| Finance and investments | 1,044 | 282 | 364 | 275 | 20.7 |
Engagement counts describe activity recorded in WFH.team, not every application made on employer sites. Outcome rates are withheld until at least 25 reports exist.
Collection coverage and known gaps
Salary49.5%
Hiring countries97.9%
Time zones65.9%
Employment type100%
Seniority92.2%
Skills99.7%
Experience requirement75.6%
Education requirement59.9%
Visa sponsorship11.6%
Work authorization60.4%
Schedule type75.3%
Overlap hours31.6%
Benefits78.6%
Role landscape
Where remote hiring is concentrated
Each unique job may match more than one role family. Category counts overlap and should not be added; fresh-share shows how much of each category was first observed during this period.
Role categoryJobs matching categoryFresh shareCandidate balanceApplications
The headline counts 9,563 unique jobs once. These rows are overlapping category matches. Candidate balance is hidden when fewer than 10 active profiles represent a category.
Leading signals
Where, what, and who is hiring
Ranked by active listings. Counts describe the current WFH.team inventory, not the entire labor market.
Reading guide
Turn the report into decisions
Find less crowded lanes
Compare openings per 100 candidates, then inspect fresh-share and salary visibility before choosing where to focus applications.
See where supply is tight
Use category balance and leading skills to understand which roles may need broader location eligibility or clearer compensation.
Read changes, not totals alone
Use the rolling period and prior-period comparison for direction. Category totals overlap and should not be added together.
Methodology
How the report is built
These figures describe jobs observed by WFH.team, not the entire remote labor market. New jobs means newly observed listings, not necessarily newly created positions. Changes can reflect source coverage as well as employer hiring activity.
When citing a finding, include the report period and link to this report or its dated archive. CSV and JSON downloads are available above.
- scope
- Confirmed remote listings observed by WFH.team, excluding rejected jobs and test application URLs.
- period
- Rolling 30-day window compared with the preceding 30 days.
- salary
- Salary statistics use annualized USD minimums, maximums, or midpoints only when compensation is stated. Every result includes its sample size.
- closures
- Confirmed closures use source deadlines or explicit employer closure actions. Age, source failures, and missing feed entries are not closure evidence. Earlier cleanup-based closure counts are excluded from the confirmed-closure trend.
- freshness
- Posted dates are preferred when supplied by the source; otherwise WFH.team's first observation date is used.
- limitations
- Listings can appear in more than one role category, skill, or hiring location. First-seen dates are observation dates when original posting dates are unavailable, and tracked applications do not represent all off-site activity.
- headline count
- The headline active-jobs figure counts unique listings once.
- candidate privacy
- Candidate demand is shown only for categories with at least 10 active profiles. Salary alignment requires at least 25 candidates and 10 salary-bearing jobs.
- category counting
- Role categories are multi-label: one listing can match several categories, so category counts overlap and must not be added together.
- engagement privacy
- Category engagement and outcomes are shown only after at least 25 recorded events or reports.
Last published Sep 23, 2026. Counts change as employers publish, update, and close roles.
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