What hiring looks like in Columbia, SC right now: 125 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 Columbia, SC
125distinct openings
53based in the metro
72national / remote pool
51%remote-flagged
Openings are distinct reqs (near-duplicate postings deduped), not raw posting counts.
Distinct openings includes both rows beneath it. "National / remote pool" counts
reqs credited to Columbia, SC by a nationwide or remote posting rather than by a
location stated here — real opportunities for someone living in the metro, which
is why they are counted, but not evidence of an employer based in it. That is a
different question from remote-flagged, which is how each req describes its own
working arrangement, so the two do not add up or contain one another.
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)
49
39%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212)
20
16%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244)
13
10%
Data Scientists (15-2051)
8
6%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299)
7
6%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211)
6
5%
Database Architects (15-1243)
5
4%
Database Administrators (15-1242)
5
4%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021)
5
4%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253)
5
4%
Seniority mix
How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.
Seniority
Openings
Share
Senior
83
66%
Mid
35
28%
Principal
4
3%
Junior
3
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.
Occupation
P25
Median
P75
Employed
Computer and Information Systems Managers
$104,490
$141,570
$183,990
990
Database Architects
$97,530
$135,790
$160,710
240
Computer Network Architects
$100,160
$125,510
$156,710
270
Software Developers
$90,120
$123,380
$148,230
2,070
Information Security Analysts
$79,120
$101,330
$129,050
370
Computer Programmers
$73,990
$98,490
$130,770
190
Computer Occupations, All Other
$68,150
$91,920
$126,950
770
Computer Systems Analysts
$64,720
$90,760
$119,990
2,110
Data Scientists
$65,210
$88,260
$111,660
590
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
$71,560
$86,650
$106,190
810
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.