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Job market reports · Metro · August 2026

Tech jobs in Atlanta, GA

180 live technical postings in Atlanta, GA in August 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Atlanta, GA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer47.2%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer11.1%
  3. 3Data Engineer6.7%
  4. 4Security Engineer6.7%
  5. 5Data Analyst5.6%
  6. 6AI Engineer5%
  7. 7Data Scientist5%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer3.9%
  9. 9Full-Stack Engineer3.9%
  10. 10Backend Engineer2.8%
  11. 11Machine Learning Engineer2.2%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Atlanta, GA. Role mix drives this as much as location does — a metro heavy in senior infrastructure roles will out-earn one heavy in analytics regardless of cost of living.

Disclosed pay — Atlanta, GA

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 10 of these postings state one. We would rather show nothing than a median built on a handful of rows.

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python13.9%
  2. 2aws6.7%
  3. 3ci/cd6.1%
  4. 4sql6.1%
  5. 5azure5.6%
  6. 6c++5.6%
  7. 7linux5%
  8. 8java4.4%
  9. 9git3.9%
  10. 10kubernetes3.9%
  11. 11automation3.3%
  12. 12docker3.3%

Who is hiring here

Employers with the most open technical postings in this market.

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.