Tech hiring in Denver, CO

What hiring looks like in Denver, CO right now: 921 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 Denver, CO

921 distinct openings
571 based in the metro
350 national / remote pool
17% remote-flagged
23,381 located developers

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 Denver, CO 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).

python29%aws18%ci-cd17%rest-api16%sql14%git12%linux11%docker10%kubernetes9.8%llm8.7%java8.6%terraform8.5%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 425 46%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 99 11%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 85 9%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 66 7%
Database Architects (15-1243) 59 6%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 46 5%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 41 4%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 39 4%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 36 4%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 11 1%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 536 58%
Mid 308 33%
Junior 54 6%
Principal 17 2%
Staff 6 1%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript3,404Python2,072Ruby1,368Java1,153PHP470C++457C#427TypeScript348Shell347R279Go259C247

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 $167,420 $203,340 $230,420 7,730
Database Architects $134,990 $162,640 $170,310 1,360
Computer Network Architects $124,200 $139,230 $168,520 10,260
Software Developers $123,640 $137,610 $171,350 27,010
Information Security Analysts $107,650 $136,670 $170,920 3,580
Computer Systems Analysts $102,410 $127,880 $164,070 4,190
Operations Research Analysts $101,670 $127,810 $157,150 490
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $95,800 $123,690 $140,930 3,620
Actuaries $96,940 $120,440 $162,220 400
Database Administrators $80,830 $120,120 $145,390 800

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.

← Tech hiring in every metro we cover