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Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in Boston, MA

606 live technical postings in Boston, MA in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Boston, MA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer50.7%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer11.1%
  3. 3Security Engineer7.6%
  4. 4Data Scientist5.3%
  5. 5Data Analyst5%
  6. 6AI Engineer4.3%
  7. 7Data Engineer4.3%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer4.1%
  9. 9Full-Stack Engineer4%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer2.5%
  11. 11Backend Engineer1.3%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Boston, MA. 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 — Boston, MA
n = 309
10th
$120k
25th
$145k
Median
$174k
75th
$193k
90th
$223k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python44.1%
  2. 2aws30.9%
  3. 3ci/cd21.8%
  4. 4kubernetes20.5%
  5. 5terraform16%
  6. 6typescript16%
  7. 7react15.3%
  8. 8sql14.2%
  9. 9go13.7%
  10. 10azure12.7%
  11. 11gcp11.7%
  12. 12java11.2%

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.