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Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in Los Angeles, CA

504 live technical postings in Los Angeles, CA in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Los Angeles, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer59.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer8.5%
  3. 3Data Analyst6.2%
  4. 4Security Engineer6%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer4.8%
  6. 6Data Engineer4.2%
  7. 7Data Scientist3.2%
  8. 8AI Engineer3%
  9. 9Machine Learning Engineer2.4%
  10. 10Backend Engineer2.2%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Los Angeles, CA. 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 — Los Angeles, CA
n = 239
10th
$125k
25th
$150k
Median
$180k
75th
$200k
90th
$230k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python37.5%
  2. 2c++21.8%
  3. 3aws17.5%
  4. 4ci/cd15.3%
  5. 5linux14.3%
  6. 6kubernetes13.9%
  7. 7sql12.3%
  8. 8go11.7%
  9. 9typescript11.1%
  10. 10java10.9%
  11. 11docker10.7%
  12. 12terraform10.5%

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.