H-1B demand profile: Software Developers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1252, employers filed 3,089 Labor Condition Applications for Software Developers positions across 490 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Software Developers 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. Offered wages on LCAs range from $62,400 at the floor to $599,997 at the ceiling, with an average of $132,358. 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. The top sponsor is General Motors with 147 petitions at an average offered wage of $156,993, followed by Strategic Systems, Inc, IQVIA Inc, Accenture LLP. Geographically, TX leads with 504 filings (avg $129,126), followed by CA, MI, OH. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Software Developers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.