Tech hiring in Columbus, OH

What hiring looks like in Columbus, OH right now: 167 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 Columbus, OH

167 distinct openings
16% remote-flagged
7,436 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).

python23%aws21%ci-cd18%rest-api16%sql16%java14%terraform11%git11%kubernetes10%azure10%docker9.6%javascript8.4%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 78 47%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 18 11%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 16 10%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 14 8%
Database Architects (15-1243) 11 7%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 8 5%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 8 5%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 5 3%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 4 2%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 3 2%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 97 58%
Mid 55 33%
Junior 10 6%
Principal 3 2%
Staff 2 1%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript878Python642Java599Ruby368C#261C++155R143PHP129TypeScript121Shell106C96Swift54

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 $133,580 $167,630 $210,280 4,330
Database Architects $112,580 $135,840 $163,060 470
Computer Network Architects $101,770 $131,260 $163,210 1,270
Computer Occupations, All Other $98,630 $129,940 $134,560 2,410
Information Security Analysts $97,990 $122,600 $154,270 1,650
Software Developers $100,010 $122,340 $140,260 9,880
Data Scientists $83,090 $107,950 $143,450 1,480
Computer Systems Analysts $84,780 $107,230 $136,730 4,660
Actuaries $84,710 $106,540 $139,820 300
Network and Computer Systems Administrators $82,170 $105,750 $143,780 3,970

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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