The remote-first job market is a smaller pond than the discourse suggests.

12,798 active tech jobs across the 1,056 companies we track on remoet.dev. 1,788 of them are fully remote. That is 14%. The other 86% want you in a chair somewhere, full or part time. The May numbers are below.

Where the work actually is

Location policy Jobs Share

Fully remote 1,788 14%

Remote, region-restricted 2,611 20%

Hybrid 2,079 16%

Onsite 1,493 12%

Unspecified 4,827 38%

The "unspecified" bucket is the one to be honest about. Most career-page scrapers don't normalize location policy, and in practice those jobs tend onsite or region-restricted. Read the listing before you celebrate.

Hiring is concentrated

The top 15 companies have 3,143 open roles between them.…