Industry Report

State of Vibe Coding Jobs
2026

A data-driven look at the emerging vibe coding job market — salaries, skills, companies, and culture trends based on 5,201 real job listings.

Published May 6, 2026 · Data updated hourly · Free to cite

5,201

Total Jobs Tracked

all-time across all sources

1,804

Active Listings

currently open positions

$160k

Median Salary

$0k–$350k range

22

Data Sources

job boards & company pages

01Executive Summary

The vibe coding job market is establishing itself as a distinct segment within remote software development. As of May 6, 2026, Remote Vibe Coding Jobs has tracked 5,201 total job listings from 22 sources, with 1,804 currently active.

Key findings from this report:

  • The median salary across all vibe coding positions is $160k, with a range from $0k to $350k.
  • Python is the most in-demand technology, appearing in 376 job listings.
  • Grafana Labs leads hiring with 338 listings.
  • The most common vibe tag is vibe-coding, appearing in 592 listings.
  • Data is sourced from 22 distinct job boards and company career pages.

02Market Overview

Vibe coding refers to a development approach where developers leverage AI coding assistants — like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude — as core parts of their workflow, enabling rapid prototyping and higher output per engineer. Remote Vibe Coding Jobs is the first job board dedicated to this emerging category.

Jobs by Experience Level

Lead
407
Staff+
231
Not Specified
222
Senior
107
mid
16
Junior
6
senior
6
Mid
5

Jobs by Source

greenhouse375
hn318
aggregated78
linkedin74
jobicy24
remoteok20
4dayweek13
arbeitnow13
yc13
ashby12
lever11
wwr9
seed8
workingnomads5
dice5
remotive5
hackernews4
himalayas4
glassdoor3
careers3
google_jobs2
builtin1

03Salary Landscape

Based on 91 job listings with salary information, the vibe coding market shows competitive compensation across experience levels.

Junior

Median:$75k
Range:$50k$100k
6 positions at this level

Mid-Level

Median:$0k
Range:$0k$200k
21 positions at this level

Senior

Median:$150k
Range:$0k$320k
113 positions at this level

Staff

Median:$200k
Range:$100k$300k
231 positions at this level

Lead

Median:$180k
Range:$20k$320k
407 positions at this level

04In-Demand Skills

The top 20 technologies requested across all vibe coding job listings, ranked by frequency of appearance.

1Python
376
2Kubernetes
302
3Go
290
4AWS
287
5TypeScript
204
6GCP
186
7React
185
8Azure
178
9Rust
147
10Java
142
11Docker
134
12JavaScript
82
13PostgreSQL
72
14Node.js
72
15Ruby
43
16Next.js
40
17Kotlin
28
18Swift
24
19Vue
22
20GraphQL
21

05Company Landscape

The top 15 companies by number of vibe coding job listings posted.

1

Grafana Labs

338 listings

2

GitLab

17 listings

3

4dayweek.io

13 listings

4

Spotify

11 listings

5

Twilio

10 listings

6

Replit

10 listings

7

Stripe

6 listings

8

Webflow

5 listings

9

Decise

4 listings

10

TripleTen

4 listings

11

Mindrift

4 listings

12

Anthropic

4 listings

13

PostHog

3 listings

14

Lemon.io

3 listings

15

Proxify

3 listings

06Culture & Vibes

Vibe tags are culture signals extracted from job listings — indicators of work style, values, and team culture. A total of 1,721 vibe tag instances were detected across all listings.

1vibe-coding
592
2open-source
475
3impact-driven
115
4async-first
103
5global-friendly
80
6equity-heavy
76
7ai-tools
70
8no-bs
40
9small-team
39
10remote-first
25
11ai-native
23
12startup
23
13deep-work
22
144-day-week
15
15dev-tools
10

07Popular Job Titles

1Engineering Roles
31 listings
2Software Engineer
30 listings
3Senior AI Engineer - Grafana Ops, AI/ML
15 listings
4Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope
15 listings
5Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry
14 listings
6Staff AI Engineer - Grafana Ops, AI/ML
14 listings
7Senior Software Engineer
13 listings
8Engineering Manager - Adaptive Telemetry
13 listings
9Senior Software Engineer - Grafana k6
12 listings
10Staff Backend Engineer - Observability Knowledge Graph Backend
11 listings
11Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud k6
10 listings
12Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring
10 listings
13Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Databases, SRE
10 listings
14Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana k6
10 listings
15Senior Software Engineer - Grafana k6 | United Kingdom
9 listings

08Growth Timeline

Monthly job listing volume showing market growth over time.

4
01
1
03
1
04
1
09
7
10
12
11
13
12
189
01
511
02
185
03
74
04
2
05

09Methodology

This report is generated from live data collected by Remote Vibe Coding Jobs. Our methodology:

  • Data collection: Jobs are aggregated from 22 sources including major remote job boards (RemoteOK, We Work Remotely, Remotive, Himalayas), company career pages via Lever and Greenhouse, and direct employer submissions.
  • Vibe detection: Each listing is analyzed for culture signals — async-first practices, flexible schedules, AI-tool adoption, and developer-friendly hiring (no leetcode, deep work focus). These are tagged automatically and verified periodically.
  • Salary data: Only listings with explicitly stated salary ranges are included in compensation analysis. We do not estimate or impute salaries.
  • Freshness: Data is revalidated hourly. This report reflects a live snapshot and may change between visits.
  • Deduplication: Jobs appearing on multiple sources are deduplicated by title + company matching.

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