Software Engineer Job Market 2025 Reddit 2025. Data from 20m job postings. A tough job market made competition fierce, and the technical bar remained high for those seeking placement.

In the poll, nearly nine in 10 surveyed software engineers said it is more difficult to get a job now than it was before the pandemic, with 66 percent saying it was “much harder.” Following a year of layoffs in 2023, tech companies are signaling an uptick in job openings for 2025.