What hiring looks like in Seattle, WA right now: 855 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 Seattle, WA
855distinct openings
12%remote-flagged
64,919located 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).
Roles in demand
The occupations behind the openings, most first.
Occupation
Openings
Share
Software Developers (15-1252)
507
59%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021)
67
8%
Data Scientists (15-2051)
58
7%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299)
36
4%
Database Architects (15-1243)
36
4%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253)
35
4%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244)
34
4%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212)
30
4%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211)
25
3%
Web and Digital Interface Designers (15-1255)
13
2%
Seniority mix
How the metro's seniority-tagged openings split by level.
Seniority
Openings
Share
Senior
434
51%
Mid
309
36%
Staff
44
5%
Principal
38
4%
Junior
30
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
$171,550
$214,680
$299,560
13,170
Computer and Information Research Scientists
$153,130
$211,270
$255,550
1,620
Computer Network Architects
$133,500
$172,650
$208,820
3,710
Software Developers
$132,800
$167,280
$211,860
92,770
Data Scientists
$108,740
$164,740
$210,370
8,370
Information Security Analysts
$129,760
$161,780
$186,530
4,700
Computer Occupations, All Other
$85,860
$136,120
$172,360
10,710
Actuaries
$104,140
$134,720
$176,710
230
Web and Digital Interface Designers
$75,570
$133,760
$173,020
10,330
Computer Systems Analysts
$102,200
$133,690
$165,380
19,050
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.