What hiring looks like in Richmond, VA right now: 107 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 Richmond, VA
107distinct openings
15%remote-flagged
4,017located 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)
37
35%
Database Architects (15-1243)
21
20%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244)
12
11%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212)
7
7%
Database Administrators (15-1242)
7
7%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253)
5
5%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299)
4
4%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021)
4
4%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211)
3
3%
Data Scientists (15-2051)
3
3%
Seniority mix
How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.
Seniority
Openings
Share
Senior
69
64%
Mid
31
29%
Junior
5
5%
Principal
1
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.
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
$153,580
$180,640
$224,320
1,900
Computer and Information Research Scientists
$136,710
$162,910
$199,880
160
Database Architects
$120,460
$133,770
$164,920
440
Software Developers
$107,430
$132,120
$165,690
7,680
Actuaries
$100,390
$131,900
$164,780
120
Computer Network Architects
$102,380
$129,210
$162,330
870
Information Security Analysts
$96,830
$126,230
$160,900
1,690
Data Scientists
$91,030
$122,510
$169,990
1,050
Computer Programmers
$86,860
$112,690
$135,670
310
Computer Occupations, All Other
$81,990
$111,070
$138,740
1,280
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.