What hiring looks like in Philadelphia, PA right now: 339 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 Philadelphia, PA
339distinct openings
12%remote-flagged
16,535located 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).
Roles in demand
The occupations behind the openings, most first.
Occupation
Openings
Share
Software Developers (15-1252)
167
49%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244)
32
9%
Database Architects (15-1243)
25
7%
Data Scientists (15-2051)
23
7%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212)
17
5%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021)
16
5%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211)
14
4%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253)
13
4%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299)
12
4%
Database Administrators (15-1242)
8
2%
Seniority mix
How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.
Seniority
Openings
Share
Senior
182
54%
Mid
125
37%
Junior
25
7%
Principal
6
2%
Staff
1
0%
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
$137,130
$173,470
$216,930
15,090
Database Architects
$129,080
$163,590
$186,810
1,500
Computer Network Architects
$110,510
$138,850
$169,630
3,070
Software Developers
$103,920
$133,040
$165,140
28,480
Information Security Analysts
$99,290
$132,560
$163,090
2,710
Actuaries
$100,300
$127,770
$167,550
780
Computer and Information Research Scientists
$101,040
$125,320
$142,130
350
Computer Occupations, All Other
$85,000
$121,990
$154,460
7,360
Data Scientists
$83,010
$109,910
$152,700
6,480
Statisticians
$78,610
$105,820
$156,610
920
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.