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Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in Silicon Valley, CA

1,929 live technical postings in Silicon Valley, CA in September 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Silicon Valley, CA technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer61.2%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer8.1%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.2%
  4. 4Data Scientist7%
  5. 5Security Engineer4.2%
  6. 6AI Engineer4.1%
  7. 7Data Engineer2.3%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer2.2%
  9. 9Frontend Engineer1.6%
  10. 10Backend Engineer1.4%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Silicon Valley, 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 — Silicon Valley, CA
n = 1,084
10th
$163k
25th
$187k
Median
$214k
75th
$250k
90th
$300k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python48%
  2. 2c++26.4%
  3. 3go21.1%
  4. 4kubernetes20.7%
  5. 5distributed systems18.7%
  6. 6aws17.4%
  7. 7java16.9%
  8. 8machine learning14.6%
  9. 9ci/cd14.1%
  10. 10llm13.2%
  11. 11gcp12.8%
  12. 12linux12.3%

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.