Original research
The Architecture Exit Report
Where architects, engineers, and designers actually go after practice — measured from every role posted to our job board since 2018. Most career advice for architects is anecdote. This is the hiring record.
Data as of September 20, 2026 · 2,229 listings · 1,221 employers
Remote work has been quietly disappearing
Remote-eligible roles peaked at 38% in 2022 and fell to 16% by 2025. If you left practice expecting remote work to stay on the table, the market moved underneath you.
- 2021
- 20%
- 20 of 100
- 2022
- 38%
- 81 of 213
- 2023
- 25%
- 63 of 257
- 2024
- 20%
- 122 of 599
- 2025
- 16%
- 102 of 634
Listings per year
- 2021100
- 2022213
- 2023257
- 2024599
- 2025634
2026 is still in progress — 404 listings so far, excluded from the year-on-year figures above.
What architects get hired to do
Every listing sorted by discipline. Treat these as floors, not totals: 75% of titles are specific enough to classify, and the rest count only toward the archive total.
Where the roles are
- New York437 listings · 36 open now
- San Francisco Bay Area166 listings · 10 open now
- Los Angeles129 listings · 9 open now
- Seattle66 listings · 14 open now
- Chicago53 listings · 5 open now
- Boston46 listings · 9 open now
- Washington DC44 listings · 3 open now
- Portland38 listings · 3 open now
- Atlanta38 listings · 1 open now
- Austin30 listings · 6 open now
- Denver24 listings · 6 open now
- Remote435 listings · 22 open now
Who hires the most
The ten employers that have posted the most roles to the board since 2018, out of 1,221 in total.
Method
Every figure is computed directly from the 2,229 roles posted to the Out of Architecture job board between 2018 and today, and updates automatically as roles are added or close. Disciplines are assigned from job titles, so a listing whose title carries no discipline signal is counted in the totals but not in any discipline. Years still accruing listings are reported separately. Percentages cover completed years only.
173 of these roles are open right now
The same board this report is built from, filtered to roles still accepting applications.
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