H-1B demand profile: Software Developers, Applications. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1132-00, employers filed 10,264 Labor Condition Applications for Software Developers, Applications positions across 1,972 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Software Developers, Applications among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Software Developers, Applications. Offered wages on LCAs range from $46,592 at the floor to $440,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $114,535. These figures reflect what employers commit to pay sponsored workers, not market averages, each offer must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage (Level I through IV) for the worksite, so the distribution tracks wage-level geography, years of experience, and regional cost of labor more than it does any single employer’s pay philosophy.

Where and who sponsors Software Developers, Applications. The top sponsor is JPMORGAN CHASE & CO with 386 petitions at an average offered wage of $131,776, followed by Wal-Mart Associates, Inc, Ebay Inc, Cloud Big Data Technologies LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 1,962 filings (avg $147,018), followed by TX, NY, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Software Developers, Applications actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.