Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in Seattle, WA

817 live technical postings in Seattle, WA in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Seattle, WA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer66.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.2%
  3. 3Security Engineer6.4%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer3.3%
  5. 5Data Scientist3.2%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer2.8%
  7. 7AI Engineer2.4%
  8. 8Backend Engineer2.2%
  9. 9Data Engineer1.6%
  10. 10Data Analyst1.5%
  11. 11Frontend Engineer1.1%

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.

Disclosed pay — Seattle, WA
n = 449
10th
$143k
25th
$170k
Median
$196k
75th
$220k
90th
$243k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python38.6%
  2. 2go23.4%
  3. 3distributed systems22.3%
  4. 4aws21.7%
  5. 5kubernetes21.5%
  6. 6java20.8%
  7. 7c++19.7%
  8. 8ci/cd16.3%
  9. 9terraform12.7%
  10. 10gcp11.9%
  11. 11azure11.6%
  12. 12typescript10.8%

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.