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
2,036distinct openings
18%remote-flagged
31,674located 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)
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.
Seniority
Openings
Share
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.
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
$171,120
$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.