Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in Atlanta, GA

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

Which roles are hiring

Share of Atlanta, GA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer43.9%
  2. 2Data Analyst11.3%
  3. 3Security Engineer10.4%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.6%
  5. 5Data Engineer7.8%
  6. 6AI Engineer6.1%
  7. 7Data Scientist5.7%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer1.7%
  9. 9Frontend Engineer1.3%
  10. 10Machine Learning Engineer1.3%

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
n = 45
10th
$95k
25th
$140k
Median
$172k
75th
$192k
90th
$207k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python24.3%
  2. 2aws18.3%
  3. 3sql14.3%
  4. 4ci/cd13.9%
  5. 5java13%
  6. 6azure11.3%
  7. 7kubernetes9.6%
  8. 8gcp9.1%
  9. 9git8.7%
  10. 10docker7.8%
  11. 11terraform7.8%
  12. 12linux7%

Who is hiring here

Employers with the most open technical postings in this market.

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.