Tech hiring in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

What hiring looks like in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA right now: 55 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 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

55 distinct openings
15% 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).

sql27%python24%angular22%ci-cd20%aws20%rest-api16%java13%css13%html13%sass11%linux11%dotnet9.1%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 33 60%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 8 15%
Web Developers (15-1254) 4 7%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 2 4%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 2 4%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 2 4%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 1 2%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 1 2%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 1 2%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 1 2%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 26 47%
Mid 23 42%
Junior 5 9%
Staff 1 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 $131,980 $164,840 $183,360 2,050
Actuaries $99,680 $130,540 $154,270 400
Software Developers $101,550 $126,460 $140,390 4,240
Information Security Analysts $97,890 $123,740 $136,520 720
Database Architects $98,330 $120,030 $143,160 140
Database Administrators $76,500 $109,750 $140,510 130
Computer Occupations, All Other $78,570 $109,490 $134,850 1,770
Computer Network Architects $80,700 $108,280 $131,440 640
Data Scientists $80,360 $103,030 $133,460 1,240
Computer Systems Analysts $81,530 $102,070 $120,030 2,680

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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