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Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in San Francisco, CA

2,720 live technical postings in San Francisco, CA in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of San Francisco, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer53.5%
  2. 2Data Scientist8.7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.4%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer6%
  5. 5AI Engineer5.7%
  6. 6Security Engineer5%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer4.2%
  8. 8Data Engineer3.9%
  9. 9Frontend Engineer2.4%
  10. 10Backend Engineer1.9%
  11. 11Data Analyst1.3%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in San Francisco, 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 Francisco, CA
n = 1,380
10th
$160k
25th
$190k
Median
$216k
75th
$255k
90th
$308k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python49.4%
  2. 2aws24.8%
  3. 3typescript22.8%
  4. 4kubernetes20.7%
  5. 5distributed systems18.9%
  6. 6go18.7%
  7. 7react17.5%
  8. 8llm16.1%
  9. 9sql15.1%
  10. 10machine learning14.4%
  11. 11ci/cd14.1%
  12. 12observability14%

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.