Tech hiring in Trenton-Princeton, NJ

What hiring looks like in Trenton-Princeton, NJ right now: 27 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 Trenton-Princeton, NJ

27 distinct openings
11% remote-flagged

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).

aws48%python44%git37%ci-cd26%terraform26%jenkins26%copado26%sql26%java19%salesforce19%sfdx15%javascript15%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 17 63%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 2 7%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 2 7%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 2 7%
Database Architects (15-1243) 1 4%
Operations Research Analysts (15-2031) 1 4%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 1 4%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 1 4%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 19 70%
Mid 5 19%
Junior 2 7%
Staff 1 4%

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 $159,080 $197,420 $233,430 2,000
Database Architects $96,020 $141,220 $171,740 100
Computer Network Architects $105,140 $140,340 $175,140 350
Data Scientists $97,200 $135,320 $163,390 430
Information Security Analysts $97,290 $129,540 $162,270 210
Actuaries $102,110 $129,540 $172,690 110
Software Developers $101,440 $128,770 $159,790 3,390
Database Administrators $105,710 $123,490 $132,860 170
Computer Occupations, All Other $78,000 $114,000 $147,120 970
Computer Programmers $82,090 $110,990 $127,730 220

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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