What 13,128 Live Job Postings at S&P 100 Companies Reveal About Tech Hiring

1. Remote is three times rarer at the giants

Of big-company tech postings that state a work model, 78.8% are onsite and only 4.6% are remote. The rest of the market posts 13.7% remote. Four out of five engineering openings at America's largest companies now expect you in a building.

2. The big-company pay premium is gone

Median advertised tech salary at the S&P 100 set: $163,700. Median for the rest of the market: $162,500. A rounding error. Scale buys stability now, not a pay premium.

The company board is more surprising than the aggregate: General Motors advertises a higher engineering median than Cisco.

3. Two companies advertise below what they tell the government they pay

Every company that hires on an H-1B visa files its wages with the US Department of Labor, and those filings are public. We joined them against the same companies' live posting ranges. Most companies advertise above their historical filings, which is what you would expect from wage growth and senior-heavy openings. Two go the other way: Broadcom advertises a $150k median but filed $178k; Accenture advertises $131k but filed $149k.

If you are negotiating with either company, the DOL number is public record and it is a better anchor than the posting range.

4. Python appears in more postings than Java, C++, and JavaScript combined

Across the 2,960 tech postings, Python leads at 28.3%, more than the next three languages combined. One more number worth sitting with: AI and machine-learning skills appear in 18.5% of giant-company tech postings, which is statistically identical to the 18.4% rate across the rest of the market. The giants are not ahead of the market on AI hiring. They are exactly at it.

5. Entry-level did not die, it moved to the giants

Of postings with a stated experience level, 21.2% of S&P 100 tech openings are entry-level or intern roles, versus 14.6% across the rest of the market. The "no junior jobs" story is real for startups and mid-market companies. The giants still run structured university pipelines. The catch is in finding number one: those junior roles are overwhelmingly onsite.

Methodology and honest caveats

Source. Live postings pulled directly from each company's public ATS or career-site API, refreshed several times daily, deduplicated by JD content hash. This cut: ~50 S&P 100 members, 13,128 live openings, 2,960 software/data roles as of July 5, 2026.

Skills. One LLM extraction per posting into a typed requirement graph (skill, tool, certification, required vs preferred). 99.7% coverage on this cut.

Salary. Midpoint of the posted US range, base pay only, $30k to $900k sanity bounds. No equity, so stock-heavy companies read low. Work-model and level stats only cover postings that state them, and the denominators are quoted above.

What is missing. Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft post on closed portals our pipeline does not cover, so they are excluded rather than estimated. This is each company's public careers pipeline, not every internal req.

DOL wages. Median per employer from the public FY2026 H-1B LCA disclosure file (~1M rows). Filings are historical while postings are current, so part of any gap is timing and seniority mix.