Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in Atlanta, GA

189 live technical postings in Atlanta, GA in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Atlanta, GA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer49.2%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer11.6%
  3. 3Data Analyst10.1%
  4. 4Data Engineer6.9%
  5. 5Security Engineer6.9%
  6. 6AI Engineer5.8%
  7. 7Data Scientist3.7%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer3.2%
  9. 9Backend Engineer1.1%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer1.1%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Atlanta, GA. 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 — Atlanta, GA
n = 52
10th
$107k
25th
$136k
Median
$164k
75th
$183k
90th
$200k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python37.6%
  2. 2aws30.2%
  3. 3ci/cd21.2%
  4. 4java18%
  5. 5kubernetes17.5%
  6. 6sql17.5%
  7. 7azure15.3%
  8. 8gcp15.3%
  9. 9git13.2%
  10. 10terraform12.2%
  11. 11docker11.6%
  12. 12typescript11.1%

Who is hiring here

Employers with the most open technical postings in this market.

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.