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Job market reports · Metro · August 2026

Tech jobs in Silicon Valley, CA

1,541 live technical postings in Silicon Valley, CA in August 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Silicon Valley, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer61.3%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer8%
  3. 3Data Scientist7.1%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.4%
  5. 5Security Engineer4.2%
  6. 6AI Engineer4%
  7. 7Data Engineer2.7%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer2.2%
  9. 9Backend Engineer1.8%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer1.8%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Silicon Valley, 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 — Silicon Valley, CA
n = 238
10th
$156k
25th
$186k
Median
$220k
75th
$272k
90th
$310k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python29.9%
  2. 2c++18.5%
  3. 3distributed systems13.9%
  4. 4machine learning13.2%
  5. 5kubernetes11%
  6. 6go10.6%
  7. 7aws9.3%
  8. 8ci/cd8%
  9. 9llm7.5%
  10. 10java7%
  11. 11gcp6.8%
  12. 12docker6.4%

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.