Tech hiring in Portland, OR

What hiring looks like in Portland, OR right now: 112 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 Portland, OR

112 distinct openings
26% remote-flagged
18,818 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).

python28%ci-cd18%rest-api17%sql16%linux14%aws11%llm9.8%azure9.8%windows8.9%networking8.9%react8%typescript8%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 47 42%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 17 15%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 9 8%
Database Architects (15-1243) 8 7%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 8 7%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 6 5%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 4 4%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 4 4%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 4 4%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 2 2%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 59 53%
Mid 42 38%
Junior 7 6%
Staff 2 2%
Principal 2 2%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript2,664Python1,913Ruby1,109Java804PHP534C++492C#396C356Shell285R246TypeScript220Go184

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 $139,830 $183,720 $220,230 5,680
Software Developers $126,220 $156,000 $174,050 18,260
Database Architects $120,420 $143,410 $161,910 560
Computer Network Architects $106,150 $137,200 $165,910 1,050
Data Scientists $98,340 $129,600 $167,540 1,700
Actuaries $101,700 $129,100 $168,470 130
Computer Systems Analysts $101,720 $127,360 $149,700 4,020
Web and Digital Interface Designers $79,610 $120,640 $142,560 880
Computer Occupations, All Other $81,680 $103,990 $132,450 2,360
Database Administrators $79,180 $103,110 $126,760 730

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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