Tech hiring in Buffalo, NY

What hiring looks like in Buffalo, NY right now: 36 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 Buffalo, NY

36 distinct openings
14% remote-flagged
3,697 located 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).

ci-cd25%sql22%azure19%rest-api19%python19%git17%aws14%networking14%docker14%csharp11%java11%sql-server8.3%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 21 58%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 6 17%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 2 6%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 2 6%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 1 3%
Database Architects (15-1243) 1 3%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 1 3%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 1 3%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 1 3%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 26 72%
Mid 8 22%
Staff 1 3%
Junior 1 3%

Developer supply by language

Located developers in this metro by stack — a sourcing signal from public GitHub profiles, not a hire count.

Python470JavaScript368Java270C++125PHP100R79C75C#75Ruby71TypeScript40Shell28Swift19

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 $138,430 $172,650 $207,160 1,590
Computer Network Architects $101,370 $131,320 $152,100 620
Database Architects $87,120 $128,100 $139,640 110
Software Developers $99,270 $127,850 $157,550 3,960
Information Security Analysts $87,920 $116,290 $151,750 400
Computer Occupations, All Other $81,010 $104,700 $130,310 730
Data Scientists $75,320 $102,250 $138,980 840
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $75,250 $101,880 $126,170 340
Computer Systems Analysts $81,330 $101,660 $130,470 1,170
Web and Digital Interface Designers $66,560 $99,990 $130,700 460

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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