Tech hiring in St. Louis, MO

What hiring looks like in St. Louis, MO right now: 207 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 St. Louis, MO

207 distinct openings
12% remote-flagged
16,309 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).

python18%ci-cd16%sql15%aws14%rest-api14%git13%linux11%java9.2%agile9.2%csharp8.2%c7.7%shell-scripting7.7%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 95 46%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 28 14%
Database Architects (15-1243) 16 8%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 14 7%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 11 5%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 10 5%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 8 4%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 8 4%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 7 3%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 7 3%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 107 52%
Mid 75 36%
Junior 22 11%
Principal 2 1%
Staff 1 0%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript1,723Python1,561Java1,047C#472Ruby427PHP416C++394R328Shell255C230TypeScript225Swift111

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 $132,150 $167,130 $197,730 6,160
Computer and Information Research Scientists $107,470 $142,660 $174,550 100
Actuaries $101,610 $129,360 $176,210 250
Software Developers $101,670 $129,030 $156,320 9,820
Database Architects $81,200 $122,310 $154,060 710
Computer Occupations, All Other $80,140 $108,450 $136,200 7,330
Information Security Analysts $82,990 $106,420 $132,510 1,640
Web Developers $82,430 $106,360 $125,470 490
Database Administrators $76,680 $104,650 $132,040 550
Computer Network Architects $78,830 $103,370 $137,950 2,010

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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