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Job market reports · Metro · August 2026

Tech jobs in San Francisco, CA

2,270 live technical postings in San Francisco, CA in August 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of San Francisco, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer54.8%
  2. 2Data Scientist8.2%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.7%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer5.6%
  5. 5AI Engineer5.2%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer4.8%
  7. 7Security Engineer4.8%
  8. 8Data Engineer3.7%
  9. 9Frontend Engineer2.8%
  10. 10Backend Engineer1.9%
  11. 11Data Analyst1.5%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in San Francisco, 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 Francisco, CA
n = 321
10th
$160k
25th
$188k
Median
$213k
75th
$245k
90th
$285k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python36.3%
  2. 2aws17%
  3. 3typescript16.6%
  4. 4kubernetes15.1%
  5. 5distributed systems13.1%
  6. 6go12.5%
  7. 7react12.3%
  8. 8machine learning11.7%
  9. 9sql11.7%
  10. 10observability10.6%
  11. 11llm10.4%
  12. 12ci/cd9.8%

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.