Tech hiring in San Jose, CA

What hiring looks like in San Jose, CA right now: 1,589 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

1,589 distinct openings
12% remote-flagged
21,461 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).

python38%c++18%llm16%ci-cd11%machine-learning11%distributed-systems10%kubernetes10%java9.1%sql9.1%linux8.9%aws8.7%rest-api8.4%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 956 60%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 196 12%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 119 7%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 111 7%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 53 3%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 45 3%
Database Architects (15-1243) 38 2%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 27 2%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 22 1%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 6 0%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 868 55%
Mid 411 26%
Staff 179 11%
Junior 79 5%
Principal 52 3%

Developer supply by language

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

Python2,771Java2,432JavaScript2,398C++946C725Ruby516PHP291Shell278Go262C#252TypeScript248Swift217

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 $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.

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