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Job market reports · Metro · August 2026

Tech jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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

Which roles are hiring

Share of Los Angeles, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer59.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.2%
  3. 3Security Engineer6.8%
  4. 4Data Scientist5%
  5. 5Data Engineer4.7%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer4.7%
  7. 7Data Analyst3.9%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer3.7%
  9. 9AI Engineer1.8%

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 = 35
10th
$115k
25th
$150k
Median
$185k
75th
$218k
90th
$263k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python26%
  2. 2ci/cd10.5%
  3. 3aws9.4%
  4. 4sql9.2%
  5. 5c++8.9%
  6. 6typescript8.1%
  7. 7testing6.6%
  8. 8react6.3%
  9. 9distributed systems6%
  10. 10go6%
  11. 11kubernetes6%
  12. 12observability5.8%

Who is hiring here

Employers with the most open technical postings in this market.

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.