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Job market reports · Metro · August 2026

Tech jobs in Boston, MA

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

Which roles are hiring

Share of Boston, MA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer54.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.7%
  3. 3Security Engineer6.4%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer5.5%
  5. 5Data Scientist5.1%
  6. 6Data Engineer4.8%
  7. 7Data Analyst4.6%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer2.8%
  9. 9Full-Stack Engineer2.8%
  10. 10AI Engineer2.3%
  11. 11Backend Engineer1.6%

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 = 57
10th
$115k
25th
$145k
Median
$168k
75th
$193k
90th
$274k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python31.3%
  2. 2aws16.6%
  3. 3kubernetes11.5%
  4. 4sql11%
  5. 5ci/cd10.3%
  6. 6go9.9%
  7. 7distributed systems9%
  8. 8typescript9%
  9. 9terraform8.5%
  10. 10c++8%
  11. 11react8%
  12. 12machine learning7.4%

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.