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Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in Seattle, WA

687 live technical postings in Seattle, WA in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Seattle, WA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer62.6%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer8%
  3. 3Security Engineer6.6%
  4. 4Data Scientist3.9%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer3.5%
  6. 6Data Analyst3.2%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer3.2%
  8. 8AI Engineer3.1%
  9. 9Backend Engineer2.5%
  10. 10Data Engineer1.9%
  11. 11Frontend Engineer1.6%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Seattle, WA. 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 — Seattle, WA
n = 371
10th
$143k
25th
$165k
Median
$193k
75th
$218k
90th
$246k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python41.3%
  2. 2aws22.7%
  3. 3kubernetes22.7%
  4. 4distributed systems22.4%
  5. 5go22.1%
  6. 6java21.8%
  7. 7c++19.8%
  8. 8ci/cd15.9%
  9. 9terraform12.8%
  10. 10typescript11.8%
  11. 11gcp11.4%
  12. 12docker11.2%

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.