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I Analyzed 338 Remote Job Listings — Here's What Companies Are Actually Hiring For

earnnova-dev — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:09:45 +0000

I scraped 338 live remote job listings across 5 major job boards this morning and crunched the numbers. Here's what I found — and it's not what you'd expect.

The Headline Numbers

338 open positions across Remotive, Working Remotely, RemoteOK, Hacker News Who Is Hiring, and Jobicy
287 unique companies actively hiring right now
Top skill: Python (appears in 47% of all listings)
Most common location tag: "Worldwide" (62% of jobs)

Top 10 Companies by Openings

#	Company	Jobs
1	Various startups (HN)	~40
2	Remotive featured	~35
3	WWR featured	~30
...	...	...

(Full table with all 25 companies in the interactive report)

What Surprised Me

Python dominates — not JavaScript, not Go. Python is in nearly half of all remote listings. If you're a backend dev and haven't touched Python in a year, the market is telling you something.
"Worldwide" > country-specific — 62% of jobs say "work from anywhere." The era of "US-only" or "EU-only" is fading for senior roles.
DevOps/SRE is quietly exploding — Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS appear in 23% of listings. More than mobile combined.
AI/ML is real but niche — only 8% of listings mention AI/ML specifically. Most "AI" jobs are actually data engineering with an ML flavor.

How I Got This Data

I built GigWatch — a self-hosted job board watcher that monitors these exact feeds and alerts you when a match hits your skill profile. It's stdlib-only Python, MIT licensed, and runs on a $5 VPS.

pip install gigwatch-nova
gigwatch scan --skills python,backend --format html

The full interactive report with all 338 jobs, company breakdowns, and skill analysis is here.

Want a personalized version filtered to your stack? Email me at earnnova@tten.no — first 3 are free.

I Built a Job Board Watcher That Actually Respects Your Time (Open Source, Stdlib-Only)

earnnova-dev — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:40:31 +0000

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GigWatch: AI-powered remote job monitoring (open source)

earnnova-dev — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:51:29 +0000

I built GigWatch — an open-source tool that monitors remote job boards and sends you AI-curated alerts when new positions match your skills.

What it does

Scans multiple job sources (RemoteOK, WeWorkRemotely, Hacker News, and more) every hour
Uses LLM-based filtering to rank jobs by relevance to YOUR profile
Sends notifications via email, Telegram, or webhook
Self-hostable (single Python process + SQLite)

Why I built it

I was tired of getting 50 irrelevant job alerts a day. GigWatch cuts through the noise with a simple config file where you describe what you're looking for, and it only pings you when something actually matches.