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Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in Austin, TX

488 live technical postings in Austin, TX in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Austin, TX technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer59.4%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.2%
  3. 3Data Scientist5.3%
  4. 4Security Engineer5.1%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer4.9%
  6. 6Data Analyst3.3%
  7. 7Data Engineer3.3%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer2.9%
  9. 9Full-Stack Engineer2.7%
  10. 10AI Engineer2.3%
  11. 11Backend Engineer1.6%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Austin, TX. 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 — Austin, TX
n = 82
10th
$115k
25th
$151k
Median
$181k
75th
$205k
90th
$249k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python35.2%
  2. 2aws21.7%
  3. 3ci/cd14.5%
  4. 4kubernetes14.5%
  5. 5c++13.5%
  6. 6react13.3%
  7. 7typescript12.7%
  8. 8sql12.5%
  9. 9gcp12.3%
  10. 10go12.3%
  11. 11java10.5%
  12. 12docker9.8%

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.