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
112distinct openings
26%remote-flagged
18,818located 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)
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.
Seniority
Openings
Share
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.
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
$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.