Tech hiring in Knoxville, TN

What hiring looks like in Knoxville, TN right now: 36 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 Knoxville, TN

36 distinct openings
8% 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).

python17%sql17%networking14%aws14%rest-api14%active-directory11%dns11%pytorch11%firewall11%ci-cd11%javascript11%dhcp11%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 9 25%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 9 25%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 4 11%
Database Architects (15-1243) 3 8%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 2 6%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 2 6%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 2 6%
Web Developers (15-1254) 1 3%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 1 3%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 1 3%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 17 47%
Mid 15 42%
Junior 3 8%
Principal 1 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 $123,410 $143,650 $174,890 1,380
Software Developers $85,080 $121,750 $144,990 2,390
Computer Network Architects $96,520 $117,480 $131,590 480
Information Security Analysts $66,990 $102,210 $132,610 480
Data Scientists $78,770 $92,640 $128,510 320
Network and Computer Systems Administrators $77,320 $87,400 $103,070 880
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $75,230 $85,970 $96,380 220
Computer Systems Analysts $69,990 $85,730 $102,200 1,210
Web Developers $62,820 $80,710 $114,440 200
Computer Network Support Specialists $59,340 $76,820 $90,910 350

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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