What hiring looks like in San Jose, CA right now: 2,595 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 Jose, CA
2,595distinct openings
1,941based in the metro
654national / remote pool
11%remote-flagged
21,461located 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 Jose, 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)
1,543
59%
Data Scientists (15-2051)
308
12%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021)
174
7%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299)
169
7%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253)
93
4%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244)
78
3%
Database Architects (15-1243)
78
3%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212)
58
2%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211)
49
2%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031)
19
1%
Seniority mix
How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.
Seniority
Openings
Share
Senior
1,490
57%
Mid
656
25%
Staff
247
10%
Junior
117
5%
Principal
85
3%
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
$219,860
$291,660
$319,540
19,070
Computer and Information Research Scientists
$171,990
$218,420
$270,170
2,210
Software Developers
$173,650
$213,110
$226,080
87,350
Statisticians
$155,600
$202,840
$207,790
320
Web and Digital Interface Designers
$161,970
$201,260
$218,450
4,400
Database Architects
$141,000
$197,960
$217,670
1,120
Computer Network Architects
$162,610
$186,110
$222,730
2,730
Data Scientists
$149,570
$185,080
$219,460
6,060
Computer Occupations, All Other
$136,120
$184,430
$220,080
16,680
Information Security Analysts
$126,060
$176,120
$216,420
2,280
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.