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Job market reports · Metro · August 2026

Tech jobs in Austin, TX

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

Which roles are hiring

Share of Austin, TX technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer53.6%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer10.6%
  3. 3Security Engineer7.7%
  4. 4Data Analyst6%
  5. 5Data Engineer5.8%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer3.8%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer3.4%
  8. 8AI Engineer2.9%
  9. 9Data Scientist2.9%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer2.6%

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

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 17 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. 1python30.8%
  2. 2aws15.1%
  3. 3ci/cd12.5%
  4. 4c++11.3%
  5. 5kubernetes9.6%
  6. 6react9.6%
  7. 7sql9.1%
  8. 8typescript9.1%
  9. 9gcp8.9%
  10. 10terraform8.4%
  11. 11machine learning7.9%
  12. 12go7.7%

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.