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Senior Software Engineer in Santa Clara, CA

Job title · Santa Clara, California

Job title as filed
Senior Software Engineer
City
Santa Clara, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
609
Median offered wage
$160,000
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$160,000certified 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 Santa Clara.

Applications by fiscal year

77153FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
77153FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY2022114
FY2023147
FY2024153
FY2025108
FY2026*87
Certified (decided applications)
99.8%
Employers filing
154
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. ServiceNow, Inc.173
  2. Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.55
  3. Xmotors.Ai, Inc.22
  4. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.20
  5. Chegg, Inc.16
  6. Palo Alto Networks, Inc.15
  7. Cloud Software Group, Inc.13
  8. NVIDIA Corporation13
  9. Leantaas, Inc.12
  10. Coinbase, Inc.9
  11. Auris Health, Inc.9
  12. GoDaddy.com, LLC9
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 $160,000; middle half $155,000 to $181,536 · median prevailing wage $157,477 (marker) · 601 applications.

$120k$145k$170k$195k$220k
$120k$145k$170k$195k$220k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I13
  2. Level II118
  3. Level III130
  4. Level IV55
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 Santa Clara is 13.5% above 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 Santa Clara
1.5%
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 Santa Clara job market

Santa Clara has 33,150 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 7,478 job titles and 2,175 employers; "Senior Software Engineer" ranks #4 by applications, with 1.8% of them.

Applications in Santa Clara, all job titles
33,150
Job titles filed
7,478
Rank of Senior Software Engineer in Santa Clara
4
Median offered wage in Santa Clara, all job titles
$163,031
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in Santa Clara
  1. Software Engineer2,663
  2. Component Design Engineer950
  3. Software Development Engineer II635
  4. Hardware Engineer, Electronics460
  5. Staff Software Engineer354
  6. Engineer Senior Systems Software317
  7. Process Engineer276
  8. Principal Software Engineer248
  9. Software Development Engineer I231
  10. Software Developer224
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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