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Job market reports · Metro · October 2026

Tech jobs in Houston, TX

204 live technical postings in Houston, TX in October 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Houston, TX technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer48.5%
  2. 2Data Analyst13.7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer11.8%
  4. 4Data Engineer8.8%
  5. 5Security Engineer7.4%
  6. 6Data Scientist4.9%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer1.5%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.5%
  9. 9AI Engineer1%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer1%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Houston, TX. 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 — Houston, TX

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 12 of these postings state one. We would rather show nothing than a median built on a handful of rows.

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python15.2%
  2. 2aws8.8%
  3. 3sql7.8%
  4. 4azure7.4%
  5. 5linux7.4%
  6. 6gcp6.4%
  7. 7git6.4%
  8. 8c++5.9%
  9. 9ci/cd5.9%
  10. 10terraform5.4%
  11. 11docker4.9%
  12. 12rest apis4.4%

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.