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Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in New York, NY

2,120 live technical postings in New York, NY in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of New York, NY technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer43.3%
  2. 2Data Scientist11.1%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer8%
  4. 4Data Engineer6.2%
  5. 5Security Engineer5.7%
  6. 6AI Engineer5.7%
  7. 7Data Analyst5.1%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer4.9%
  9. 9Machine Learning Engineer3.8%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer3.4%
  11. 11Backend Engineer2.7%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in New York, NY. 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 — New York, NY
n = 1,103
10th
$136k
25th
$165k
Median
$200k
75th
$227k
90th
$263k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python46.9%
  2. 2aws27.7%
  3. 3sql20.5%
  4. 4typescript20%
  5. 5react17.6%
  6. 6kubernetes16.1%
  7. 7llm15.2%
  8. 8ci/cd14.5%
  9. 9go13.4%
  10. 10distributed systems12.1%
  11. 11gcp12.1%
  12. 12terraform12.1%

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.