Tech hiring in Detroit, MI

What hiring looks like in Detroit, MI right now: 527 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 Detroit, MI

527 distinct openings
338 based in the metro
189 national / remote pool
6% remote-flagged
5,616 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 Detroit, MI 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).

python33%sql23%ci-cd20%rest-api19%java14%gcp14%llm11%git11%aws10%github9.5%azure8.7%spring-boot8%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 248 47%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 52 10%
Database Architects (15-1243) 51 10%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 39 7%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 38 7%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 25 5%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 24 5%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 22 4%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 15 3%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 8 2%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 295 56%
Mid 191 36%
Junior 32 6%
Principal 5 1%
Staff 4 1%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript688Python444Java404C#201C++176Ruby146PHP138Swift108TypeScript93Shell84C83R48

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 $133,400 $170,040 $208,290 7,980
Computer and Information Research Scientists $125,990 $136,720 $151,110 150
Database Architects $105,510 $132,040 $153,060 730
Software Developers $101,850 $130,760 $153,270 24,870
Computer Network Architects $98,700 $128,830 $158,480 1,570
Database Administrators $81,640 $110,160 $132,900 510
Information Security Analysts $85,500 $108,990 $136,560 1,520
Web Developers $74,600 $108,550 $138,540 870
Computer Occupations, All Other $79,300 $107,560 $136,890 3,830
Actuaries $82,010 $105,640 $135,150 240

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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