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I can't speak to 2016 as we've only recruited one person this year. However, towards the middle and end of 2015 it was very hard to find good developers in Raleigh, NC. It seems like everybody noticed, too, and as a result salaries seemed to have jumped up a bit. I know a number of senior engineers who were able to get 20% or so raises by jumping to a different company.

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Yeah, that sounds similar to our experience. We saw a fairly steady uptick in the difficulty of recruiting engineers between '11 and early '15, then a significant shift around early/mid last year. We've been able to recruit about half the number of qualified candidates compared to the previous few years. I'm interested to hear how others have fared.

Have you considered hiring remote ?

I'm just an agency recruiter, so I'm at the whim of the employer. My experience trying to represent remote jobs has consistently been the opposite: the supply of qualified candidates is excellent versus the relatively few remote positions. (So, strong enough that these employers rarely need to a hire a contingency recruiting agency).

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