Tech hiring in San Diego, CA

What hiring looks like in San Diego, CA right now: 249 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 San Diego, CA

249 distinct openings
12% remote-flagged
24,207 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).

python29%linux16%c++14%ci-cd13%aws12%sql11%git9.6%llm9.6%docker7.6%kubernetes6.4%rest-api6.4%agile6%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 112 45%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 30 12%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 18 7%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 17 7%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 16 6%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 16 6%
Database Architects (15-1243) 15 6%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 14 6%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 8 3%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 2 1%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 125 50%
Mid 89 36%
Junior 18 7%
Principal 11 4%
Staff 6 2%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript2,724Python2,577Java1,696C++821Ruby736PHP530C495C#479R335Shell305TypeScript294Swift192

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 $165,460 $206,740 $262,210 7,250
Software Developers $128,590 $163,270 $193,980 20,610
Computer Network Architects $114,840 $157,700 $180,520 1,490
Database Architects $125,610 $156,800 $178,560 390
Computer Programmers $101,360 $134,130 $163,990 1,600
Information Security Analysts $102,320 $132,120 $167,480 1,330
Statisticians $98,260 $131,860 $161,220 210
Data Scientists $93,420 $130,990 $164,160 2,830
Computer Occupations, All Other $83,350 $127,600 $156,480 7,340
Web and Digital Interface Designers $80,020 $123,850 $168,950 1,270

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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