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Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in San Diego, CA

238 live technical postings in San Diego, CA in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of San Diego, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer65.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer10.1%
  3. 3Security Engineer7.1%
  4. 4Data Scientist4.6%
  5. 5AI Engineer3.4%
  6. 6Data Analyst2.9%
  7. 7Data Engineer2.5%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer2.1%
  9. 9Full-Stack Engineer1.7%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in San Diego, 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 — San Diego, CA
n = 92
10th
$118k
25th
$143k
Median
$174k
75th
$200k
90th
$215k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python29%
  2. 2c++19.7%
  3. 3kubernetes15.1%
  4. 4docker11.3%
  5. 5ci/cd10.9%
  6. 6aws10.5%
  7. 7linux10.5%
  8. 8c9.7%
  9. 9java9.2%
  10. 10agile8%
  11. 11terraform8%
  12. 12git7.6%

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.