Tech hiring in Washington, DC

What hiring looks like in Washington, DC right now: 2,036 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 Washington, DC

2,036 distinct openings
18% remote-flagged
31,674 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).

python30%aws24%sql19%ci-cd18%rest-api16%linux15%git13%javascript12%docker11%kubernetes11%java9.2%terraform9.1%

Roles in demand

The occupations behind the openings, most first.

OccupationOpeningsShare
Software Developers (15-1252) 872 43%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244) 267 13%
Data Scientists (15-2051) 194 10%
Information Security Analysts (15-1212) 172 8%
Database Architects (15-1243) 141 7%
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211) 111 5%
Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) 100 5%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) 60 3%
Database Administrators (15-1242) 42 2%
Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) 34 2%

Seniority mix

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

SeniorityOpeningsShare
Senior 1,297 64%
Mid 622 31%
Junior 86 4%
Principal 25 1%
Staff 6 0%

Developer supply by language

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

JavaScript3,668Python3,546Java1,444Ruby1,278R978PHP578C++450Shell422C#388TypeScript346C340Swift172

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 $171,120 $195,190 $228,800 20,800
Mathematicians $122,930 $164,470 $195,190 200
Database Architects $128,050 $162,870 $196,630 4,740
Computer and Information Research Scientists $129,730 $161,090 $201,170 3,420
Computer Network Architects $127,050 $159,820 $178,420 9,370
Software Developers $123,720 $154,930 $176,230 69,060
Information Security Analysts $122,590 $148,950 $173,850 16,560
Actuaries $112,180 $144,680 $171,390 520
Statisticians $116,900 $136,660 $156,750 3,220
Web Developers $106,220 $134,350 $165,690 3,840

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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