Tech hiring in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA

What hiring looks like in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA right now: 37 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 Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA

37 distinct openings
31 based in the metro
6 national / remote pool
11% remote-flagged

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 Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, 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).

python27%csharp11%git11%excel8.1%c++8.1%windows8.1%visio8.1%active-directory8.1%rest-api8.1%linux8.1%aws8.1%verilog8.1%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 18 49%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 5 14%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 4 11%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 4 11%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 2 5%
Mathematical Science Occupations, All Other (15-2099) 1 3%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 1 3%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 1 3%
Database Architects (15-1243) 1 3%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Mid 14 38%
Senior 14 38%
Junior 5 14%
Staff 4 11%

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 $167,790 $207,760 $256,480 700
Software Developers $127,490 $158,290 $173,660 1,680
Information Security Analysts $100,780 $130,770 $163,750 140
Computer Network Architects $124,540 $128,990 $165,570 130
Computer Occupations, All Other $94,230 $128,390 $159,010 670
Computer Systems Analysts $88,960 $120,680 $141,250 720
Data Scientists $82,110 $113,990 $159,150 190
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $97,630 $110,640 $141,010 230
Computer Programmers $83,260 $109,690 $128,090 140
Web and Digital Interface Designers $77,260 $103,430 $156,310 190

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.

  • Affluent
  • Aurex
  • AV
  • Bitwarden
  • Google
  • Intake Breathing
  • KARL STORZ
  • Omitron, Inc.
  • Quantum Machines
  • RTX
  • Toyon
  • Toyon Research Corporation

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