Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in Denver, CO

295 live technical postings in Denver, CO in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Denver, CO technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer53.2%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer13.2%
  3. 3Security Engineer6.4%
  4. 4Data Engineer6.1%
  5. 5Data Analyst4.7%
  6. 6Data Scientist4.7%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer4.7%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer3.4%
  9. 9AI Engineer1.4%
  10. 10Backend Engineer1.4%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Denver, CO. 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 — Denver, CO
n = 190
10th
$105k
25th
$135k
Median
$163k
75th
$181k
90th
$221k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python46.8%
  2. 2aws29.2%
  3. 3ci/cd27.8%
  4. 4kubernetes19.7%
  5. 5sql19%
  6. 6typescript18.6%
  7. 7docker17.6%
  8. 8c++16.6%
  9. 9git16.3%
  10. 10react14.9%
  11. 11linux13.6%
  12. 12terraform13.2%

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.