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Job market reports · Metro · August 2026

Tech jobs in New York, NY

1,735 live technical postings in New York, NY in August 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of New York, NY technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer44%
  2. 2Data Scientist10.6%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.8%
  4. 4Data Engineer7.1%
  5. 5AI Engineer5.8%
  6. 6Security Engineer5.6%
  7. 7Data Analyst4.6%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer4.1%
  9. 9Full-Stack Engineer4.1%
  10. 10Machine Learning Engineer3.3%
  11. 11Backend Engineer2.8%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in New York, NY. 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 — New York, NY
n = 272
10th
$135k
25th
$168k
Median
$200k
75th
$225k
90th
$265k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python34.5%
  2. 2aws17.8%
  3. 3sql15.3%
  4. 4typescript13.1%
  5. 5react11.8%
  6. 6kubernetes11.1%
  7. 7ci/cd10.2%
  8. 8machine learning9%
  9. 9llm8.8%
  10. 10distributed systems8.7%
  11. 11go8.5%
  12. 12gcp8.2%

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.