Tech hiring in Boulder, CO

What hiring looks like in Boulder, CO right now: 111 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 Boulder, CO

111 distinct openings
7% remote-flagged

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).

python30%linux21%c++15%ci-cd14%aws12%docker11%sql9.9%windows8.1%git8.1%terraform7.2%azure5.4%kubernetes5.4%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 54 49%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 17 15%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 10 9%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 7 6%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 5 5%
Mathematical Science Occupations, All Other (15-2099) 5 5%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 4 4%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 3 3%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 3 3%
Database Architects (15-1243) 2 2%

Seniority mix

How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 58 52%
Mid 38 34%
Junior 11 10%
Principal 2 2%
Staff 2 2%

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.

OccupationP25MedianP75Employed
Computer and Information Systems Managers $159,910 $206,260 $250,030 1,220
Software Developers $129,210 $164,560 $206,650 7,130
Computer Network Architects $132,070 $156,360 $186,000 2,000
Information Security Analysts $126,230 $154,990 $177,730 520
Computer Occupations, All Other $109,060 $147,590 $173,310 1,120
Web and Digital Interface Designers $104,470 $139,900 $176,150 360
Database Architects $115,170 $139,160 $188,890 150
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $102,550 $136,410 $166,120 500
Data Scientists $100,940 $134,040 $165,550 540
Database Administrators $72,240 $116,250 $142,270 110

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.

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