Quantum Computing Jobs Surge in 2026: Postings Already Pass All of 2025, Coresignal Data Shows

Quantum computing jobs passed a clear marker in 2026, according to new hiring data published on 27 October 2026. Coresignal, a provider of public web data, counted 4,518 quantum job postings from January through August 2026, nearly 58% more than the 2,861 postings it recorded for all of 2025. The figures, released at 10:00 am Eastern Time on 27 October 2026, cover postings on English-language professional networks and job boards.

At a glance: quantum computing jobs in 2026	Detail
Report published	27 October 2026, 10:00 am Eastern Time
Source	Coresignal, from public job postings
Postings, January to August 2026	4,518
Postings, all of 2025	2,861
Postings, 2024	239
Roles covered, 2023 to August 2026	About 9,500, from about 1,000 employers
Largest hiring employer	Google, with 6.4% of quantum job ads
Where most postings sit	The United States, with London and Paris leading outside the United States
Single vacancy or closing date	None stated: this is a count of postings, not one job advertisement
Salary range	None stated in the report

Quantum computing jobs: what the numbers show

The change from year to year is sharp. Coresignal said quantum postings in its dataset rose from 239 in 2024 to 2,861 in 2025, then reached 4,518 in the first eight months of 2026 alone. The analysis covers roughly 9,500 quantum roles posted by about 1,000 employers between 2023 and August 2026, including hardware and systems engineers building quantum processors, software developers writing quantum algorithms, research scientists, and specialists in quantum sensing and cryptography.

Karolis Didziulis, Product Director at Coresignal, said the pattern marks a change in how the field is building. He said: "Quantum computing has been 'a decade away' for 30 years, but hiring data suggests the industry is now building in earnest." He added: "Most of these openings are for experienced engineers and developers, followed by early-career staff and interns, not executives. That's what the field looks like when it's expanding its bench." Investment and policy attention frame the hiring: McKinsey's Quantum Technology Monitor 2026 reported $12.6 billion invested in quantum start-ups in 2025, and at a hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on 22 January 2026, Dr James Kushmerick, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, told lawmakers: "We are in a workforce shortage."

Who is hiring in quantum computing

Google leads the employer ranking in the dataset, with 6.4% of quantum job ads, ahead of IBM at 4.4%. Amazon Web Services follows at 3.0%, then Infleqtion at 2.7%, IonQ at 2.4%, NVIDIA at 2.3% and Microsoft at 2.3%, with Booz Allen Hamilton at 2.0%. Coresignal warned that absence from the ranking does not mean a company is not investing in quantum, naming Meta and Apple: the dataset omits many company career sites and national job boards.

By industry, software development is the largest employer industry in the dataset, ahead of IT services and IT consulting. Four of the top 10 industries are hardware, semiconductor, or computer and electronics manufacturing, which fits the mix of roles in the count: people building processors and related hardware sit alongside people writing algorithms and software.

Where quantum computing jobs are clustered

The United States accounts for more than half of the postings in the dataset. California, New York and Massachusetts are the top states, with hiring clustered in the Bay Area, Boston and Cambridge, and the Washington, D.C.-Virginia-Maryland corridor. Goleta, California, is the city mentioned most often in quantum job ads. Outside the United States, London in the United Kingdom and Paris in France lead. The report gives no separate count for Nepal or for South Asia, so the figures are a picture of hiring on Western job boards, not a worldwide census.

What kind of quantum computing jobs are open

Seniority is the clearest signal for anyone weighing a move into the field. Mid-senior-level roles make up the vast majority of postings, followed by entry-level, internship and associate roles, while director and executive roles make up the smallest share. Early-career staff and interns do appear in the data, but they follow the experienced hires, so a new graduate is entering a market where most advertised posts expect prior experience.

The report states no salary range and no closing date, because it counts postings rather than advertising a single vacancy. The dataset also does not state which posts are open to applicants outside the hiring country, so each employer's own advertisement must be checked before an application is made.

What to do next

Jobseekers who want to act on this hiring picture should start from the employers named in the report and from their own career pages, not from aggregator summaries. Search those employers' career pages for quantum roles in the families Coresignal lists: hardware and systems engineering, quantum algorithm software, research, sensing and cryptography. Check each advertisement for its own location, seniority, qualifications and closing date, since none of those details can be read off the overall count.

The full Coresignal report is available at Coresignal's quantum computing hiring analysis, and the release is published on GlobeNewswire. Related Growentix coverage includes the Lotte AX Challenge 2026, an AI competition linked to hiring and Amazon's plan for 300,000 seasonal jobs in the United States.

A note for readers in Nepal

For readers in Nepal, the limits of this report need to be plain. It contains no count of quantum vacancies in Nepal, and its data come from English-language professional networks and job boards, omitting most hiring in China and many company career sites. It is not a route to apply for a job from Nepal, and no agent can sell a place in a quantum team: applications go through the hiring employer's own career page, and any person asking for payment to arrange a quantum posting should not be trusted. The takeaway is narrower: hiring in the counted market is growing fast, led by experienced roles in a few hubs, and entry is through a specific employer's advertisement, checked in full.