Tech hiring in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

What hiring looks like in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC right now: 59 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 Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

59 distinct openings
20% 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).

aws29%rest-api25%java22%python22%ci-cd22%sql22%git15%typescript14%jenkins14%spring-boot12%postgres10%docker10%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 35 59%
Database Architects (15-1243) 6 10%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 5 8%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 3 5%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 3 5%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 2 3%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 2 3%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 1 2%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 1 2%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 1 2%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 36 61%
Mid 16 27%
Junior 5 8%
Principal 2 3%

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 $141,150 $176,190 $215,030 4,170
Computer Network Architects $121,870 $144,990 $167,400 970
Database Architects $117,870 $141,770 $161,470 560
Software Developers $128,290 $135,620 $168,720 9,790
Web and Digital Interface Designers $93,570 $133,340 $159,300 510
Information Security Analysts $99,960 $129,670 $160,120 860
Computer Occupations, All Other $82,230 $126,300 $161,130 2,090
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $85,330 $122,980 $137,550 950
Database Administrators $84,120 $117,950 $147,150 220
Network and Computer Systems Administrators $81,710 $110,640 $140,280 1,270

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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