Tech hiring in Sacramento, CA

What hiring looks like in Sacramento, CA right now: 30 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 Sacramento, CA

30 distinct openings
23% remote-flagged
4,971 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).

python40%power-bi17%sql17%sql-server17%rest-api10%arcgis-enterprise10%javascript10%arcgis-online10%llm10%ssrs6.7%git6.7%ansible6.7%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 8 27%
Software Developers (15-1252) 7 23%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 3 10%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 2 7%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 2 7%
Database Architects (15-1243) 2 7%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 2 7%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 1 3%
Web Developers (15-1254) 1 3%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 1 3%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 20 67%
Mid 8 27%
Junior 2 7%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript558Python391Java277Ruby149C++130C#99PHP97R75C73TypeScript71Shell58Swift26

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
Database Architects $128,510 $169,310 $187,480 230
Computer and Information Systems Managers $146,540 $165,270 $211,450 4,070
Computer Network Architects $108,460 $141,350 $170,220 580
Software Developers $126,650 $139,640 $170,240 7,460
Computer and Information Research Scientists $115,440 $139,210 $185,340 140
Information Security Analysts $101,170 $133,570 $169,490 570
Computer Systems Analysts $93,940 $122,330 $138,380 3,170
Database Administrators $83,720 $120,500 $147,890 410
Actuaries $98,090 $116,580 $135,060 110
Web and Digital Interface Designers $79,900 $112,840 $154,490 480

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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