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Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in Silicon Valley, CA

2,222 live technical postings in Silicon Valley, CA in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Silicon Valley, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer62.8%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer7.7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.7%
  4. 4Data Scientist6.4%
  5. 5AI Engineer4.8%
  6. 6Security Engineer4.3%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer2.3%
  8. 8Data Engineer1.7%
  9. 9Backend Engineer1.2%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer1.2%

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 = 1,112
10th
$160k
25th
$183k
Median
$212k
75th
$245k
90th
$295k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python42.7%
  2. 2c++24%
  3. 3go18.9%
  4. 4kubernetes18%
  5. 5distributed systems16.8%
  6. 6aws15.4%
  7. 7java15.2%
  8. 8machine learning13.1%
  9. 9ci/cd12.6%
  10. 10llm11.4%
  11. 11linux11.4%
  12. 12gcp10.7%

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.