Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in Los Angeles, CA

475 live technical postings in Los Angeles, CA in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Los Angeles, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer57.7%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.9%
  3. 3Security Engineer7.6%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer5.5%
  5. 5Data Analyst4.6%
  6. 6Data Engineer4%
  7. 7Data Scientist4%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer3.2%
  9. 9AI Engineer1.5%
  10. 10Backend Engineer1.5%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Los Angeles, CA. 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 — Los Angeles, CA
n = 235
10th
$125k
25th
$152k
Median
$175k
75th
$200k
90th
$237k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python38.1%
  2. 2aws20.4%
  3. 3c++19.2%
  4. 4kubernetes16.8%
  5. 5ci/cd16.4%
  6. 6sql13.1%
  7. 7docker12.6%
  8. 8linux12.4%
  9. 9typescript12.2%
  10. 10terraform11.6%
  11. 11go10.5%
  12. 12react10.5%

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.