Tech hiring in Milwaukee, WI

What hiring looks like in Milwaukee, WI right now: 50 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 Milwaukee, WI

50 distinct openings
20% remote-flagged
3,711 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).

rest-api30%python22%sql20%ci-cd14%c10%java10%linux10%aws10%git10%javascript10%csharp10%c++8%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 29 58%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 4 8%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 4 8%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 4 8%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 3 6%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 2 4%
Web Developers (15-1254) 1 2%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 1 2%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 1 2%
Database Architects (15-1243) 1 2%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Mid 26 52%
Senior 20 40%
Junior 4 8%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript441Python311Java217C#187Ruby103PHP88TypeScript66R65C++56C52Shell47Go24

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 $129,380 $161,220 $202,580 2,520
Database Architects $108,510 $148,020 $170,210 130
Computer Network Architects $108,890 $134,070 $162,360 790
Actuaries $95,620 $132,010 $160,510 310
Software Developers $99,990 $123,730 $138,590 6,170
Data Scientists $89,930 $104,710 $129,500 1,080
Computer Systems Analysts $85,130 $102,120 $125,520 2,680
Information Security Analysts $81,970 $101,550 $129,230 690
Database Administrators $77,730 $101,510 $130,600 310
Web and Digital Interface Designers $78,700 $100,710 $131,860 240

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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