Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in Denver, CO

309 live technical postings in Denver, CO in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Denver, CO technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer56.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer10.7%
  3. 3Security Engineer7.8%
  4. 4Data Engineer5.8%
  5. 5Data Scientist5.5%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer4.5%
  7. 7Data Analyst3.9%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer3.2%
  9. 9Backend Engineer1%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Denver, CO. 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 — Denver, CO
n = 181
10th
$113k
25th
$135k
Median
$165k
75th
$188k
90th
$223k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python42.7%
  2. 2aws25.6%
  3. 3ci/cd25.2%
  4. 4typescript19.1%
  5. 5kubernetes18.8%
  6. 6c++17.2%
  7. 7react15.2%
  8. 8docker14.2%
  9. 9sql14.2%
  10. 10git13.3%
  11. 11javascript12.9%
  12. 12terraform12.3%

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.