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Senior Software Engineer in Herndon, VA

Job title · Herndon, Virginia

Job title as filed
Senior Software Engineer
City
Herndon, Virginia
Applications FY2022–FY2026
91
Median offered wage
$123,938
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$123,938certified LCAs
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Labor condition applications with the job title "Senior Software Engineer" and a worksite in Herndon.

Applications by fiscal year

1631FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
1631FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY202231
FY202314
FY202421
FY202514
FY2026*11
Certified (decided applications)
98.9%
Employers filing
50
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. Optum Services, Inc.6
  2. Semanticbits, LLC5
  3. Wal-mart Associates, Inc.5
  4. Box, Inc.4
  5. Refyn Data LLC3
  6. Intellizant LLC3
  7. Pascal Metrics Inc.3
  8. Acentle Inc3
  9. Tekizma, Inc.3
  10. Epam Systems, Inc3
  11. Optuminsight, Inc.2
  12. Airline Tariff Publishing Company2
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $123,938; middle half $114,100 to $152,700 · median prevailing wage $119,933 (marker) · 89 applications.

$80k$105k$130k$155k$180k
$80k$105k$130k$155k$180k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I6
  2. Level II35
  3. Level III23
  4. Level IV12
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Senior Software Engineer" appears on 39,714 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 5,607 employers for worksites in 1,704 cities; the median offered wage is $140,920, so the median in Herndon is 12.1% below it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
39,714
Employers nationwide
5,607
Cities with filings
1,704
National median offered wage
$140,920
Share of national filings in Herndon
0.2%
Cities with the most applications for Senior Software Engineer
  1. San Francisco, CA2,179
  2. New York City, NY1,919
  3. Sunnyvale, CA1,559
  4. Bentonville, AR1,175
  5. Charlotte, NC1,103
  6. San Jose, CA972
  7. Mountain View, CA942
  8. Seattle, WA910
  9. Irving, TX879
  10. Austin, TX858
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

The Herndon job market

Herndon has 7,644 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 1,953 job titles and 1,437 employers; "Senior Software Engineer" ranks #8 by applications, with 1.2% of them.

Applications in Herndon, all job titles
7,644
Job titles filed
1,953
Rank of Senior Software Engineer in Herndon
8
Median offered wage in Herndon, all job titles
$116,667
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in Herndon
  1. Software Developer613
  2. Software Engineer391
  3. Software Development Engineer II165
  4. Support Engineer I-external138
  5. Software Development Engineer I132
  6. Data Center Infrastructure Engineer II123
  7. Support Engineer Ii-external112
  8. Data Engineer73
  9. Enterprise Act Engineer II66
  10. Data Analyst65
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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