Job market reports · Metro · August 2026
Tech jobs in Seattle, WA
582 live technical postings in Seattle, WA in August 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.
Which roles are hiring
Share of Seattle, WA technical postings by role.
- 1Software Engineer68.4%
- 2Security Engineer6.5%
- 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6%
- 4Full-Stack Engineer3.3%
- 5Machine Learning Engineer3.3%
- 6Data Scientist2.6%
- 7AI Engineer2.4%
- 8Data Analyst2.2%
- 9Backend Engineer2.1%
- 10Data Engineer1.7%
- 11Frontend Engineer1.5%
What it pays
Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Seattle, WA. 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.
Skills in demand here
Share of postings in this market naming each skill.
- 1python29%
- 2go16.8%
- 3c++16.3%
- 4distributed systems16.3%
- 5aws13.7%
- 6java13.2%
- 7kubernetes13.1%
- 8ci/cd8.8%
- 9typescript7.7%
- 10rust7.4%
- 11react7%
- 12terraform7%
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.