Tech hiring in San Francisco, CA

What hiring looks like in San Francisco, CA right now: 1,509 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 Francisco, CA

1,509 distinct openings
22% remote-flagged
113,521 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).

python39%llm20%aws16%typescript14%sql13%rest-api13%ci-cd13%kubernetes12%react11%distributed-systems9.7%terraform7%monitoring6.9%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 943 62%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 194 13%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 75 5%
Database Architects (15-1243) 73 5%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 55 4%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 45 3%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 37 2%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 30 2%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 23 2%
Web and Digital Interface Designers (15-1255) 12 1%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 883 59%
Mid 411 27%
Staff 89 6%
Junior 68 5%
Principal 58 4%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript17,509Python14,790Java8,505Ruby6,129C++3,319C2,030TypeScript1,817Swift1,611Objective-C1,529Go1,507Shell1,465R1,403

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 $203,840 $232,890 $313,220 23,830
Software Developers $163,500 $186,640 $219,670 69,030
Database Architects $163,160 $175,860 $212,170 1,600
Actuaries $122,420 $175,330 $214,260 220
Computer and Information Research Scientists $108,670 $171,440 $219,630 1,670
Data Scientists $130,430 $170,110 $212,970 10,460
Computer Network Architects $128,690 $166,760 $211,740 3,350
Web and Digital Interface Designers $110,100 $163,810 $211,120 6,630
Information Security Analysts $115,000 $162,310 $201,690 3,730
Computer Occupations, All Other $102,340 $161,700 $206,460 16,930

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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