Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in San Diego, CA

207 live technical postings in San Diego, CA in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of San Diego, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer66.7%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer11.6%
  3. 3Data Scientist5.8%
  4. 4Security Engineer4.3%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.4%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer2.4%
  7. 7Data Analyst1.9%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer1.9%
  9. 9Data Engineer1.4%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer1.4%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in San Diego, 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 — San Diego, CA
n = 67
10th
$131k
25th
$150k
Median
$175k
75th
$194k
90th
$215k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python28%
  2. 2c++16.9%
  3. 3ci/cd14.5%
  4. 4kubernetes14%
  5. 5aws11.6%
  6. 6linux11.1%
  7. 7docker10.1%
  8. 8c9.7%
  9. 9terraform9.7%
  10. 10agile7.7%
  11. 11bash7.7%
  12. 12react7.7%

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.