Tech hiring in Raleigh, NC

What hiring looks like in Raleigh, NC right now: 176 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 Raleigh, NC

176 distinct openings
25% remote-flagged
9,751 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).

python26%sql25%aws18%ci-cd14%kubernetes11%linux10%rest-api9.1%git8%networking7.4%docker6.8%java6.8%sql-server6.8%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 83 47%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 23 13%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 15 9%
Database Architects (15-1243) 10 6%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 9 5%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 8 5%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 6 3%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 6 3%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 6 3%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 5 3%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 103 59%
Mid 62 35%
Junior 8 5%
Principal 2 1%
Staff 1 1%

Developer supply by language

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

Python1,177JavaScript1,130Java673Ruby419C++214C#207PHP188C172Shell167R153TypeScript140Go111

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 $141,040 $173,960 $220,390 6,010
Statisticians $115,400 $152,880 $181,920 210
Information Security Analysts $103,320 $143,640 $153,310 2,510
Actuaries $84,060 $142,180 $162,980 120
Software Developers $103,480 $132,770 $166,650 12,580
Database Architects $98,190 $132,740 $161,470 710
Database Administrators $98,080 $122,950 $142,470 510
Data Scientists $85,220 $120,710 $145,500 1,990
Computer Network Architects $98,470 $120,640 $142,260 2,190
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $86,710 $110,800 $135,910 1,760

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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