Tech hiring in Pittsburgh, PA

What hiring looks like in Pittsburgh, PA right now: 225 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 Pittsburgh, PA

225 distinct openings
9% remote-flagged
13,617 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-api26%python26%java25%ci-cd24%sql18%spring-boot16%microservices13%git12%kubernetes12%aws11%azure9.8%oracle9.3%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 127 56%
Database Architects (15-1243) 17 8%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 16 7%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 16 7%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 12 5%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 11 5%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 9 4%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 6 3%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 4 2%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 3 1%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 119 53%
Mid 79 35%
Junior 20 9%
Staff 4 2%
Principal 3 1%

Developer supply by language

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

Python2,045JavaScript1,302Java1,168C++650Ruby373C338C#319R234PHP213TypeScript145Shell144Go85

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 $124,810 $159,090 $195,430 5,290
Database Architects $121,860 $152,800 $188,760 570
Software Developers $95,560 $124,500 $155,770 10,320
Computer Network Architects $96,930 $123,410 $146,280 1,110
Actuaries $88,770 $117,600 $145,910 170
Information Security Analysts $81,280 $103,630 $130,050 1,130
Computer Occupations, All Other $76,320 $103,420 $130,150 2,760
Database Administrators $78,840 $102,070 $132,000 470
Computer Systems Analysts $78,610 $98,550 $111,840 5,230
Data Scientists $72,800 $96,670 $127,250 2,270

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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