Software Jobs in Australia: Who's Hiring Right Now (Oct 2026)

You want a software job in Australia and you want to know who is actually hiring, not who says they are. Here is a dated snapshot of the market, pulled from the JobRise live jobs feed on 14 October 2026. Treat it as a photo of one moment in time, not a forecast.

What the feed shows on 14 October 2026#

There were 56 open software jobs in Australia in the slice that day. 44 of those went up in the last 30 days, and 32 landed in just the last 7 days.

That last number matters. Most of the market is fresh, so roles you see now are live, not stale listings that a recruiter forgot to close. Move fast on anything you like.

For wider context, the JobRise Hiring Report: Australia tracked 462 open listings across all categories in the country, with 346 posted in the last 30 days. Software is a slice of that, not the whole picture.

Who is hiring, and for what#

Ten employers hold the largest share of these listings. Some are tech vendors, some are recruiters or staffing firms placing for clients.

• Mongodb: 6 open listings
• Elastic: 5
• Corto Pty Ltd: 3
• UpGuard: 3
• Datadog: 3
• Australian Payments Plus: 3
• Stripe: 3
• Centorrino Technologies: 3
• Catalyst Metals: 2
• Caterpillar Inc: 2

A few of the roles behind those counts, straight from the listings:

• "Senior DevOps Engineer" at Corto Pty Ltd
• "Director, Global Solutions Engineering" at UpGuard
• "Senior Incident and Escalations Manager" at Datadog
• "Lead Quality Engineer" at Australian Payments Plus
• "Senior Solutions Architect - Public Sector - (Canberra)" at Elastic
• "Infrastructure Development Lead - Australia" at Fuse Energy

Two more worth a look, since they sit outside the top-ten list: "Senior Consultant- Built Environment and Infrastructure" at Control Risks, and "Site Reliability Engineer" at Eagle Eye.

Where the jobs are#

Sydney dominates the count with 29 listings. Melbourne and Perth have 3 each, Helensvale has 1.

Seoul shows up with 2. That is a reminder that "Australia" in a job feed can include regional or remote roles tied to an Australian team. Read the location line carefully before you rule anything out.

If you are not in Sydney, do not give up. Remote and hybrid arrangements are often negotiated after an offer, so ask about them at screening rather than filtering yourself out early.

What the job-type mix tells you#

Full-time roles make up 55 of the 56 listings. Contract is 1.

Read that plainly: employers here are hiring for the long term, not filling short gaps. For you, that means more security if you land one, and longer, slower hiring processes with more interview rounds.

The employer mix points the same way. You have large infrastructure and data vendors (Mongodb, Elastic, Datadog), a payments player (Stripe), Australian financial infrastructure (Australian Payments Plus), local tech and services firms (UpGuard, Centorrino Technologies, Corto Pty Ltd), and heavy industry names (Caterpillar Inc, Catalyst Metals). Public sector work shows up too, for example Elastic's Canberra solutions architect role. This is not a startup-only market. It skews towards established employers with real budgets.

The entry-level reality#

Two of the 56 listings look entry-level by title. That is it.

The two are "Entry-Level Software Developer" at Centorrino Technologies, and "Junior/Senior Operations Engineer" at EBC Group. Note the second one: a single listing covering two seniority levels, so read the body text before deciding it is out of reach.

If you are early in your career, the honest read is that this is a senior-weighted market. You will need to target the handful of junior roles hard, and get creative elsewhere: contract-to-perm, support engineering, QA, or internal tooling teams that hire less loudly than product companies.

The salary gap#

No listing in this slice shows a salary. Zero out of 56.

That does not mean the money is not there. It means you have to ask. When a recruiter calls, get the range in the first conversation, before you invest in a take-home task. Typical reported ranges for software roles in Australia vary a lot by city, seniority, and stack, so verify current figures on official sources like the Fair Work Ombudsman or the hiring company's own careers page rather than trusting a number from a blog post.

How to apply this week#

Apply direct where you can. Company career pages and direct recruiter emails beat a portal that swallows your CV into a queue.

Mirror the listing's own keywords. If the ad says "DevOps", "SRE", and "Kubernetes", those exact words should appear in your resume, assuming they genuinely describe your work. A free ATS resume checker will show you which terms a screening system is likely looking for and where your document falls short.

One concrete example of tailoring. Say you built monitoring for a payments platform and the ad asks for reliability leadership. A weak bullet:

"Responsible for monitoring and reliability across several services."

Rewritten to match the ad's language and to carry evidence:

"Led reliability for 12 payment services, cutting Sev-1 incidents from 6 per quarter to 1 by rebuilding alerting and on-call runbooks."

Same job. Second version gives a number, a scope, and a verb the ad used.

A 7-step plan#

1. Pull the 32 listings posted in the last 7 days and shortlist 10 that match your stack. Fresh listings get faster replies.
2. Rewrite the top third of your resume for each of those 10. Match the ad's exact terms for tools, methods, and seniority.
3. Run your resume through the free ATS resume checker before you send it. Fix what it flags, then send.
4. Apply direct on the employer's own site or to the named recruiter, even if you also apply through a job board. Two touches beat one.
5. Message one person at each target employer on LinkedIn with a two-line note: the role title, and one sentence on a similar problem you solved. No essay.
6. Track everything in a spreadsheet: company, role, date applied, contact name, last follow-up. Follow up once at day 7, then stop.
7. Prep salary questions now. When a range is not published, ask for it in the first call, and check current official sources for market context before you counter.

FAQ#

How current are these numbers?

They are a snapshot of the JobRise live jobs feed taken on 14 October 2026, counting open listings in the software slice for Australia. Listings change daily, so treat the counts as a starting point and re-check before you plan around them.

Are these all direct employer roles?

No. Some of the companies with the most listings, such as Corto Pty Ltd, are recruiters or staffing firms placing on behalf of clients. That is fine, but ask early who the end client is and whether the role could convert to permanent.

Why does Sydney have so many more listings than other cities?

Sydney shows 29 of the 56, which reflects where these employers base their Australian teams. Melbourne and Perth have 3 each, and remote or regional roles appear too, so location counts are about headcount hubs rather than where you can physically work.

Should I bother applying if I am junior?

Yes, but be selective. Only 2 of 56 listings look entry-level by title, so target those directly, and consider adjacent entry points like QA, support engineering, or internal tooling where the bar is often more flexible.

What salary can I expect?

No listing in this snapshot shows a salary, so there is no number to quote here. Reported ranges for software roles in Australia vary by city, seniority, and stack, so verify current figures on official sources and ask for the range in your first recruiter call.