Medium “Software Engineering” tag statistics
How busy the Software Engineering tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is friendly for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 3.3 days
Busier than 81% of 73 tracked tags
40% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 242 stories a day, Software Engineering is busier than 81% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (18,617 followers per daily story) is higher than 33% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
57% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 40% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 48% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 7.7 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Software Engineering stories
| Publication | Followers | Software Engineering stories (last 3.3d) |
|---|---|---|
| Skill Stuff | 1.4K | 58 |
| JavaScript in Plain English | 182K | 51 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 41 |
| Engineering Under Pressure | 668 | 28 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 16 |
| Python in Plain English | 100K | 16 |
| Tax Insights┃Vergi Analizleri | 10 | 13 |
| MobileByteSensei | 10 | 12 |
| JIN System Architect | 146 | 9 |
| The Tech Notes | 1.1K | 8 |
Top Software Engineering stories right now
- Trading My Point Guard
- Agentic coding broke the iron triangle for tech leads in 5 different ways.
- My PM Started Vibe Coding Last Month. Now Every Feature Should Take an Hour.
- Vibe Coding Works Best When You Already Know What Good Looks Like
- Advanced Asset Management in UiPath Orchestrator
- AI-Ready Data: The Work Left After Building an AI Agent
- Your Closed-Source App Is No Longer Safe.
- Writing Code These Days Can Become Quite Boring
- How to build a startup in 2026
- Why High-Growth Engineering Teams Slow Down as Tooling Sprawls
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Software Engineering tag on Medium?
- About 242 per day (1,695 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 3.3-day window before our last scan. The tag has 176,533 stories in total.
- Is the Software Engineering tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 81% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 18,617 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Software Engineering?
- 40% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 57% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.