Tech hiring in Richmond, VA

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

107 distinct openings
15% remote-flagged
4,017 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).

sql-server25%python21%sql21%aws20%ci-cd17%git16%rest-api15%azure15%ssis12%azure-devops11%terraform10%jira9.3%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
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.

SeniorityOpeningsShare
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.

JavaScript456Python382Java247Ruby136C#116R112PHP100TypeScript74C++67Shell54C42Swift36

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 $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.

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