Google leads qua tum hi i g, a d most ope i gs a e fo mid-se io a d ea ly-ca ee oles athe tha executives, a sig of a i dust y still buildi g its wo kfo ce
Sou ce: Co esig al
Sou ce: Co esig al
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Qua tum computi g hi i g is havi g its b eakout yea , acco di g to ew esea ch f om Co esig al, a leadi g p ovide of public AI- eady web data. Co esig al ide tified 4,518 qua tum job posti gs f om Ja ua y th ough August 2026, ea ly 58% mo e tha all of 2025 (2,861).
The a alysis cove s oughly 9,500 qua tum oles posted by about 1,000 employe s betwee 2023 a d August 2026, i cludi g ha dwa e a d systems e gi ee s buildi g qua tum p ocesso s, softwa e develope s w iti g qua tum algo ithms, esea ch scie tists, a d specialists i qua tum se si g a d c yptog aphy.
Rapid g owth: qua tum posti gs i Co esig al’s dataset ose f om 239 i 2024 to 2,861 i 2025 a d 4,518 i the fi st eight mo ths of 2026.Google leads: Google posted 6.4% of qua tum job ads, ea ly 200 mo e ads tha seco d-place IBM (4.4%). Amazo Web Se vices (3.0%), I fleqtio (2.7%), Io Q (2.4%), NVIDIA (2.3%), a d Mic osoft (2.3%) complete the top seve , followed by Booz Alle Hamilto (2.0%).Buildi g the be ch: mid-se io -level oles make up the vast majo ity of posti gs, followed by e t y-level, i te ship a d associate oles. Di ecto a d executive oles make up the smallest sha e.Softwa e a d ha dwa e: softwa e developme t is the la gest employe i dust y, ahead of IT se vices a d IT co sulti g. Fou of the top 10 i dust ies a e ha dwa e, semico ducto , o compute a d elect o ics ma ufactu i g.U.S. leads: the U ited States accou ts fo mo e tha half of the posti gs. Califo ia, New Yo k a d Massachusetts a e the top states, with hi i g cluste ed i the Bay A ea, Bosto /Camb idge a d the Washi gto , D.C.-Vi gi ia-Ma yla d co ido . Goleta, Califo ia, is the city me tio ed most ofte i qua tum job ads. Outside the U.S., Lo do a d Pa is lead.
“Qua tum computi g has bee ‘a decade away’ fo 30 yea s, but hi i g data suggests the i dust y is ow buildi g i ea est,” said Ka olis Didziulis, P oduct Di ecto at Co esig al. “Most of these ope i gs a e fo expe ie ced e gi ee s a d develope s, followed by ea ly-ca ee staff a d i te s, ot executives. That’s what the field looks like whe it’s expa di g its be ch.”
The hi i g su ge comes as i vestme t a d policy atte tio g ow. McKi sey’s Qua tum Tech ology Mo ito 2026: A comme cial tippi g poi t epo ted $12.6 billio i vested i qua tum sta t-ups i 2025. At the House Committee o Scie ce, Space, a d Tech ology hea i g o Ja ua y 22, 2026, titled “Assessi g U.S. Leade ship i Qua tum Scie ce a d Tech ology,” D . James Kushme ick, di ecto of the Physical Measu eme t Labo ato y at the Natio al I stitute of Sta da ds a d Tech ology (NIST), told U.S. lawmake s, “We a e i a wo kfo ce sho tage.”
Read the full Co esig al epo t at https://co esig al.com/blog/qua tum-computi g-hi i g-2026/
Co esig al a alyzed mo e tha 25,000 publicly available job ads me tio i g “qua tum” f om its multi-sou ce job dataset. A alysts a owed these to mo e tha 12,000 qua tum- elated posti gs, the to oughly 9,500 qua tum developme t oles afte emovi g ea ly 2,900 templated “Qua tum Physics Tuto ” listi gs f om a si gle tuto i g platfo m. Posti gs date f om 2023 th ough August 2026; posti gs without a date a e excluded f om the yea -by-yea cou ts. The data comes f om E glish-la guage p ofessio al etwo ks a d job boa ds, so it omits ma y compa y ca ee sites a d atio al job boa ds, i cludi g most hi i g i Chi a, as well as oles whose ads do ot me tio qua tum. A compa y’s abse ce f om the a ki gs, such as Meta o Apple, does ot mea it is ot i vesti g i qua tum. All fi di gs a e based o agg egated job posti g data a d do ot ide tify a y i dividual.
Co esig al is a data i tellige ce laye that gives AI age ts a d data teams f esh, la ge-scale public web eco ds o compa ies, employees, a d jobs th ough APIs, datasets, a d AI- ative tools. Si ce 2016, Co esig al has built a database of mo e tha 5 billio egula ly updated eco ds, t usted by 1,000+ clie ts wo ldwide. Co esig al is a fou di g membe of the Ethical Web Data Collectio I itiative a d leads a p o bo o esea ch p og am fo u ive sities. Fo mo e i fo matio visit the website at co esig al.com.
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