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Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in Washington, DC

995 live technical postings in Washington, DC in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Washington, DC technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer32.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer12%
  3. 3Security Engineer11.8%
  4. 4Data Analyst11.6%
  5. 5Data Engineer8.5%
  6. 6Data Scientist8.2%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer6.9%
  8. 8AI Engineer4.1%
  9. 9Machine Learning Engineer2.6%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer2%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Washington, DC. 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 — Washington, DC
n = 371
10th
$115k
25th
$138k
Median
$163k
75th
$193k
90th
$218k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python37.2%
  2. 2aws25.2%
  3. 3ci/cd17.3%
  4. 4sql16.7%
  5. 5kubernetes16.1%
  6. 6docker14.4%
  7. 7terraform13.5%
  8. 8java13.4%
  9. 9azure11.3%
  10. 10linux11.1%
  11. 11javascript10.7%
  12. 12git10.3%

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.