Tech hiring in Kansas City, MO

What hiring looks like in Kansas City, MO right now: 67 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 Kansas City, MO

67 distinct openings
24% remote-flagged
6,118 located developers

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).

python27%sql25%azure18%aws15%rest-api15%csharp12%linux12%ci-cd12%active-directory12%javascript10%dotnet10%git10%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 21 31%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 12 18%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 9 13%
Database Architects (15-1243) 7 10%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 7 10%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 5 7%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 2 3%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 2 3%
Web Developers (15-1254) 1 1%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 1 1%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 29 43%
Mid 28 42%
Junior 7 10%
Staff 2 3%
Principal 1 1%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript753Python524Java351C#216C++194Ruby179PHP156TypeScript122C73Shell70R61PowerShell53

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 $132,100 $168,050 $207,250 4,710
Actuaries $92,890 $131,680 $175,300 180
Database Architects $93,090 $127,590 $139,080 570
Software Developers $97,560 $124,990 $139,820 12,160
Statisticians $98,760 $111,780 $128,520 100
Computer Network Architects $81,660 $107,450 $138,110 1,620
Computer Occupations, All Other $80,170 $105,470 $135,650 3,900
Computer and Information Research Scientists $92,560 $104,670 $141,520 120
Information Security Analysts $81,390 $104,010 $131,340 1,810
Database Administrators $78,510 $103,640 $135,430 440

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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