What hiring looks like in Houston, TX right now: 539 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 Houston, TX
539distinct openings
334based in the metro
205national / remote pool
9%remote-flagged
22,149located 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 Houston, TX 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).
Roles in demand
The occupations behind the openings, most first.
Occupation
Openings
Share
Software Developers (15-1252)
217
40%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244)
74
14%
Database Architects (15-1243)
71
13%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211)
36
7%
Data Scientists (15-2051)
34
6%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212)
32
6%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299)
27
5%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021)
16
3%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253)
11
2%
Database Administrators (15-1242)
8
1%
Seniority mix
How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.
Seniority
Openings
Share
Senior
318
59%
Mid
177
33%
Junior
32
6%
Principal
9
2%
Staff
3
1%
Developer supply by language
Located developers in this metro by stack — a sourcing signal from public GitHub profiles, not a hire count.
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.
Occupation
P25
Median
P75
Employed
Computer and Information Systems Managers
$136,430
$172,160
$212,710
13,090
Database Architects
$119,380
$139,100
$169,230
780
Computer and Information Research Scientists
$96,790
$134,050
$159,270
380
Software Developers
$101,190
$129,440
$159,450
22,940
Information Security Analysts
$98,990
$126,370
$155,670
2,110
Computer Network Architects
$82,550
$124,900
$158,220
2,200
Database Administrators
$85,040
$116,030
$141,080
1,090
Computer Systems Analysts
$87,560
$113,440
$136,500
8,510
Data Scientists
$81,300
$106,750
$141,290
4,060
Computer Occupations, All Other
$71,760
$105,440
$144,160
11,460
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.