What hiring looks like in San Francisco, CA right now: 2,561 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
2,561distinct openings
1,723based in the metro
838national / remote pool
21%remote-flagged
113,521located developers
Openings are distinct reqs (near-duplicate postings deduped), not raw posting counts.
Distinct openings includes both rows beneath it. "National / remote pool" counts
reqs credited to San Francisco, CA by a nationwide or remote posting rather than by a
location stated here — real opportunities for someone living in the metro, which
is why they are counted, but not evidence of an employer based in it. That is a
different question from remote-flagged, which is how each req describes its own
working arrangement, so the two do not add up or contain one another.
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)
1,600
62%
Data Scientists (15-2051)
314
12%
Database Architects (15-1243)
148
6%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021)
116
5%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299)
90
4%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212)
78
3%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244)
56
2%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253)
55
2%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211)
45
2%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031)
22
1%
Seniority mix
How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.
Seniority
Openings
Share
Senior
1,491
58%
Mid
706
28%
Staff
161
6%
Junior
112
4%
Principal
91
4%
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
$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.