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Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in San Francisco, CA

2,987 live technical postings in San Francisco, CA in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of San Francisco, CA technical postings by role.

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

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 = 1,509
10th
$159k
25th
$189k
Median
$215k
75th
$254k
90th
$306k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python47.1%
  2. 2aws23%
  3. 3typescript21.3%
  4. 4kubernetes18.4%
  5. 5distributed systems17.7%
  6. 6go17.2%
  7. 7react16.2%
  8. 8llm16.1%
  9. 9machine learning14.3%
  10. 10sql14.1%
  11. 11observability13.6%
  12. 12ci/cd12.7%

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.