Frontend Jobs Hiring Report — July 2026

Key facts

• As of July 2026, there are 1,007 open frontend roles across 744 companies on the direct-apply boards I track.
• Hiring cooled slightly over the last 28 days: 325 roles opened, 357 closed — a net loss of 32.
• 156 companies posted their first frontend role in the last 28 days, so the churn is broad, not concentrated.
• Only 19% of postings disclose pay; among the 15 that do, the median band is $130,000–$170,000/yr.
• Remote share sits at 30% — most frontend hiring is still tied to a location.

The number that tells the real story this month isn't the headline count, it's the split underneath it: 325 roles opened and 357 closed. That's a net loss of 32 over 28 days — a market that's essentially flat with a slight downward tilt. Not a collapse, not a boom. If you were hoping July would show frontend hiring bouncing back, the data doesn't support that read. But it doesn't support panic either.

What makes the flat number more interesting is the movement behind it. 156 companies opened their first frontend role in the last 28 days. That's more than a fifth of every company currently hiring showing up fresh in the dataset for this function. So the pool of open roles is roughly stable, but the composition is turning over fast — old reqs closing, new employers stepping in. For a job seeker that matters more than the net figure: the set of doors that are open today is meaningfully different from the set that was open a month ago.

How many frontend jobs are open right now?

There are 1,007 open frontend roles across 744 companies as of this edition. That works out to roughly 1.35 roles per company, which tells you the shape of this market immediately — it's a long tail of employers hiring one or two frontend people, not a handful of giants absorbing hundreds. You can browse the live set on the frontend jobs board; these are all direct-apply postings pulled from companies' own Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards, so there's no aggregator noise between you and the hiring team.

One housekeeping note on the counts: of the 1,007 roles, 1,006 classify as engineering and exactly one landed in my "junk" bucket — a misclassified or malformed posting that slipped the filter. I mention it because I'd rather you see the seam than pretend the pipeline is perfect. It's a rounding error, but it's an honest one.

Is now a good time to look for a frontend job?

It's a stable-but-picky market, and the honest answer is: it depends heavily on your seniority. The net -32 means supply and demand are roughly in balance across the board, so you're not walking into either a feeding frenzy or a drought. What the seniority breakdown reveals is where the doors actually are.

Here's the distribution across all 1,007 roles:

• Unspecified: 451 — the largest single group, roles that don't pin a level in the title
• Senior: 404
• Principal: 127
• Junior: 14
• Director: 10
• Executive: 1

Senior and principal together account for 531 roles — over half the market. Junior postings? Fourteen. That's not a typo, and it's the single most important thing in this report if you're early in your career. The direct-apply frontend market is overwhelmingly built for people who already have a few years of shipping under their belt. Companies posting to their own boards are hiring people they expect to be productive fast, and it shows in the level mix.

The 451 "unspecified" roles are the wildcard. Some of those are genuinely level-agnostic and some are just titled loosely ("Frontend Engineer" with no prefix), which in practice usually skews mid-to-senior once you read the requirements. I'd treat unspecified as "probably wants experience unless proven otherwise." If you're junior, that means your realistic addressable market is smaller than the 1,007 headline suggests — you're competing for the 14 explicit junior slots plus whatever fraction of the unspecified pile is actually open to less experience. Apply wide, and don't self-filter out of unspecified roles, but go in clear-eyed.

For senior and principal candidates, the picture is genuinely good. More than half of everything posted is aimed at you, and the churn from 156 first-time companies means new employers with new mandates keep entering. That's the level where this market rewards being active.

What do frontend jobs pay?

Among the minority of postings that disclose pay, the median band is $130,000–$170,000/yr — but I want to be straight about how thin that signal is. Only 19% of postings disclose pay at all, and the disclosed sample here is just 15 roles. Fifteen. That's enough to give you a rough anchor and nowhere near enough to slice by seniority or geography with any confidence.

So take the $130k–$170k band as a directional midpoint for a US frontend role that happens to disclose, not as gospel. The role-level pay breakdown I'd normally publish here isn't meaningful this edition — the disclosed sample is too small to split without inventing precision I don't have. I track the fuller picture as more bands come in on the frontend salaries page, and I'd rather point you there than manufacture per-level numbers from a handful of postings.

The practical read: pay transparency in frontend hiring is still the exception, not the norm. Four out of five postings you apply to won't tell you the range up front. Budget your time accordingly and ask early.

Which companies are hiring frontend fastest?

No single company is scaling frontend aggressively this month — the fastest movers are all clustered at +3 net roles over 28 days, which fits the long-tail shape of the market. The leaders:

• Cerebras — +3 net, 3 active (a fresh entrant that opened its whole frontend footprint this period)
• Betsson — +3 net, 8 active (the deepest active bench among the top movers)
• Sensor Tower — +3 net, 3 active
• Careerswift AI — +3 net, 3 active
• Coupang — +2 net, 5 active
• Coinbase — +2 net, 4 active
• Verkada — +2 net, 7 active

Faire, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Otter each added one net role. What I read into this list: Betsson and Verkada stand out because their active counts (8 and 7) are larger than their net adds, meaning they were already hiring frontend before this window and are still adding — that's sustained demand, not a one-off burst. Cerebras, Sensor Tower and Careerswift AI show +3 net against exactly 3 active, so their entire visible frontend presence appeared this period. Those are the freshest opportunities, and freshly-opened reqs tend to move faster than ones that have been sitting — fewer applicants ahead of you, hiring manager still motivated.

The sector spread is worth a glance too: infrastructure and AI compute (Cerebras), gaming and betting (Betsson, Sony), crypto (Coinbase), physical security (Verkada), e-commerce and marketplaces (Coupang, Faire), and app analytics (Sensor Tower). Frontend demand isn't concentrated in one vertical — it's spread across whoever's building a product with a UI, which is most of tech. You can track how this leaderboard shifts week to week on the frontend movers page.

Is frontend a remote-friendly job right now?

Only 30% of open frontend roles are remote, so seven in ten are tied to a location. That's a meaningful constraint and one I'd weight heavily if you're geographically fixed. Frontend gets stereotyped as a work-from-anywhere discipline, and the data pushes back on that — the majority of these companies still want you in or near an office, or at least in a specific region.

If remote is non-negotiable for you, your real addressable market is closer to 300 roles than 1,007. That's still a workable pool, but it changes the math on how many applications it takes. Filter early rather than getting attached to a role that turns out to be on-site three days a week.

What does the month-over-month trend actually mean?

A net -32 in a market of 1,007 is a 3% dip — statistically closer to flat than to a real contraction. I'd caution against reading a single 28-day window as a trend. Frontend hiring, like most engineering hiring, has a lot of week-to-week noise from reqs opening and closing on their own cadence, and one month of slight negative net doesn't establish direction.

What the data does say clearly is that the market is active even while it's flat: 325 opens in 28 days is real volume. A flat net with high gross flow is a healthier signal than a flat net with nothing moving — it means roles are turning over, which means opportunities keep surfacing. The 156 first-time-posting companies reinforce that. New employers keep entering the frontend market even as others close reqs. Stagnation would look like low opens, low closes, and few new companies. This is the opposite.

The takeaway for frontend job seekers

If you're senior or principal, this is a market that's working in your favor — more than half of the 1,007 open roles are pitched at your level, and new companies keep entering the pool. Prioritize the freshly-opened reqs at companies like Cerebras, Sensor Tower and Careerswift AI where the entire frontend team is being stood up right now; those move fastest and have the shortest applicant queues. Don't sleep on Betsson and Verkada either, where sustained hiring suggests they'll keep opening reqs.

If you're junior, be realistic and be strategic. Fourteen explicitly-junior roles isn't much, so your best play is to apply into the "unspecified" band and let your work speak — a strong portfolio can pull you into consideration for a role that never said "junior" in the title. Cast wide.

Two operational notes for everyone: expect to interview without knowing the pay range, because four in five postings don't disclose it, so raise compensation early in the conversation rather than waiting. And if you need remote, accept that you're fishing in about a third of the pond and adjust your application volume upward accordingly. The market isn't hot and it isn't cold — it's turning over steadily, and steady turnover is exactly the condition where being active and quick beats being passive and patient.