Job market reports · Metro · August 2026
Tech jobs in San Diego, CA
161 live technical postings in San Diego, CA in August 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.
Which roles are hiring
Share of San Diego, CA technical postings by role.
- 1Software Engineer62.7%
- 2Data Scientist8.1%
- 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer8.1%
- 4Security Engineer6.8%
- 5AI Engineer4.3%
- 6Data Engineer3.7%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer2.5%
- 8Full-Stack Engineer1.9%
- 9Data Analyst1.2%
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.
Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 5 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.
- 1python23.6%
- 2ci/cd11.2%
- 3c++10.6%
- 4docker9.9%
- 5kubernetes8.7%
- 6linux8.1%
- 7agile6.8%
- 8aws6.8%
- 9devsecops6.2%
- 10machine learning6.2%
- 11terraform6.2%
- 12java5%
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.