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Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in Boston, MA

573 live technical postings in Boston, MA in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Boston, MA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer50.6%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer10.6%
  3. 3Data Scientist7.7%
  4. 4Security Engineer7.2%
  5. 5Data Engineer4.5%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer4.4%
  7. 7Data Analyst4%
  8. 8AI Engineer3.3%
  9. 9Frontend Engineer3.3%
  10. 10Full-Stack Engineer2.6%
  11. 11Backend Engineer1.7%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Boston, MA. 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 — Boston, MA
n = 310
10th
$118k
25th
$147k
Median
$170k
75th
$193k
90th
$222k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python47.5%
  2. 2aws32.6%
  3. 3ci/cd21.8%
  4. 4kubernetes20.4%
  5. 5terraform17.1%
  6. 6typescript16.1%
  7. 7sql15.5%
  8. 8go14.7%
  9. 9react14.7%
  10. 10java12%
  11. 11azure11.5%
  12. 12docker11%

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.