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Software Developer in Albany

164 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 164 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

None. Across 164 postings, no certification or licence was named often enough to call it a requirement. For this role in this market, employers are hiring on demonstrated work rather than credentials — which means money spent on a certificate here is unlikely to be what gets you the interview.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job
85%reported bachelor’s degree
  • Bachelor’s degree85%
  • Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree5%
  • Master’s degree5%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 15-1252.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$80,800
10th percentile
$127,910
median
$178,120
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Anthropic · Scale AI · Ramp · Figma · Robinhood · Gusto · Chime · Headway · Ridgeline · Airtable · City of New York · Stripe · Attentive · Charlie Health · Duolingo · Zocdoc · Betterment · Blink Health · Carta · Collabera · Faire · HelloFresh · Latitude Inc · Reddit · SoFi · SpaceX

The same role elsewhere

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