intothe.zone Data Report
State of Senior Tech Hiring — 2026-Q3
Quarter covered: 2026-07-01 → 2026-09-30
Aggregate, anonymised market intelligence drawn from intothe.zone's own role supply, company enrichment, compensation submissions, and application outcomes. Shares and rates are suppressed below n=10; raw counts are always shown. Compensation cells are k-anonymised (k≥10).
1. Role supply & hiring velocity
5,460
New roles this quarter
+160.2%
QoQ change (prev 2098)
2,429
Companies hiring
7,040
Active roles now
Weekly new-role velocity
| Week starting | New roles |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-29 | 676 |
| 2026-07-06 | 473 |
| 2026-07-13 | 470 |
| 2026-07-20 | 536 |
| 2026-07-27 | 530 |
| 2026-08-31 | 1279 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1341 |
| 2026-09-14 | 155 |
2. Where the roles are
New roles by company size band
| Size band | New roles |
|---|---|
| Startup | 2277 |
| Scale up | 1632 |
| Enterprise | 548 |
| Public company | 389 |
New roles by funding stage
| Funding stage | New roles |
|---|---|
| Series a | 506 |
| Series b | 394 |
| Public | 389 |
| Series c plus | 274 |
| Seed | 253 |
3. Role mix
Remote-friendly (remote or flexible) share of new roles: 17.7% (of 5460 roles).
| Work model | New roles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Onsite | 4478 | 82.0% |
| Hybrid | 17 | 0.3% |
| Remote | 965 | 17.7% |
| Flexible | 0 | 0.0% |
4. AI-role demand
- New roles at AI-mature companies (maturity ≥ 60): 979 — 17.9% of 5460
- New roles with explicit AI/ML skill demand: 719 — 13.2% of 5460
- Average role AI-maturity score: 25.0 (n=5458)
5. Compensation benchmarks
Insufficient data: no compensation cell has reached the k≥10 anonymity threshold yet. Benchmarks publish automatically as submissions accumulate.
6. Application outcome benchmarks
Across 6 tracked applications on the platform:
- Application → interview rate: 83.3% (5 of 6)
- Interview → offer rate: 0.0% (0 of 5)
- Offer → acceptance rate: 0 of 0 — n too small for a rate
- Median time to offer: not enough data (n=0)
- Median time to first interview: 0.9 days (n=5)
7. Company AI-maturity landscape
- Enriched companies profiled: 2440 (2355 AI-maturity scored)
- AI-mature companies (score ≥ 60): 410 — 17.4%
| AI-maturity band | Companies | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Leading (80–100) | 102 | 4.3% |
| Mature (60–79) | 308 | 13.1% |
| Developing (40–59) | 295 | 12.5% |
| Nascent (0–39) | 1650 | 70.1% |
Method: every figure is a deterministic aggregate over intothe.zone's production tables at generation time — role supply, company enrichment, compensation submissions (k-anonymised), and application stage history. No individual user or company is identifiable.
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