What hiring looks like in Boston, MA right now: 685 distinct openings, the
skills they require, the occupations behind them, the seniority mix, what those roles earn
locally, and who is doing the hiring.
The market in Boston, MA
685distinct openings
18%remote-flagged
43,371located developers
Openings are distinct reqs (near-duplicate postings deduped), not raw posting counts.
Located developers is a GitHub-profile supply signal, not a hire count.
Top required skills
Share of this metro's openings that require each skill (hard requirements only).
Roles in demand
The occupations behind the openings, most first.
Occupation
Openings
Share
Software Developers (15-1252)
329
48%
Data Scientists (15-2051)
79
12%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244)
48
7%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211)
47
7%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299)
47
7%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021)
32
5%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212)
31
5%
Database Architects (15-1243)
28
4%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253)
20
3%
Database Administrators (15-1242)
8
1%
Seniority mix
How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.
Seniority
Openings
Share
Senior
397
58%
Mid
202
29%
Junior
56
8%
Principal
19
3%
Staff
11
2%
Developer supply by language
Located developers in this metro by stack — a sourcing signal from public GitHub profiles, not a hire count.
What roles earn here
Median annual earnings from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics — employer-reported
payroll for people already in these jobs, not the pay advertised on current openings.
Highest median first.
Occupation
P25
Median
P75
Employed
Computer and Information Systems Managers
$174,270
$214,960
$269,520
20,530
Computer and Information Research Scientists
$119,920
$170,510
$216,180
1,620
Software Developers
$131,880
$166,090
$183,740
42,310
Database Architects
$134,470
$161,650
$173,230
2,120
Computer Network Architects
$122,880
$160,650
$173,780
5,240
Information Security Analysts
$108,530
$136,550
$176,450
5,220
Database Administrators
$96,010
$132,370
$160,060
1,910
Data Scientists
$102,720
$132,040
$166,120
7,930
Computer Systems Analysts
$101,950
$129,180
$161,130
17,470
Computer Programmers
$102,290
$128,900
$142,650
1,600
Estimates, not a census, and BLS publishes no margin of error for the percentiles —
see our methodology. Pay for one occupation across every
metro, with its own page per area, is on the
salary pages.
Who's hiring
Employers with openings here, alphabetically. Each opening is credited to the real
employer on its canonical posting, so aggregator and staffing-agency mirrors are
attributed to the actual hirer rather than the reposter. This is a sample of who is
hiring, not a ranking and not a complete list. Each name opens one of that
employer's postings here — a sample of their hiring in this metro, not all of it.