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Job market reports · Metro · August 2026

Tech jobs in Washington, DC

723 live technical postings in Washington, DC in August 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages.

Which roles are hiring

Share of Washington, DC technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer34.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer13.8%
  3. 3Security Engineer10.1%
  4. 4Data Analyst8.9%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer8.2%
  6. 6Data Engineer7.9%
  7. 7Data Scientist5.5%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer4.6%
  9. 9AI Engineer4.1%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer2.2%

What it pays

Disclosed annual base ranges across every technical role in Washington, DC. 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 — Washington, DC
n = 47
10th
$130k
25th
$144k
Median
$180k
75th
$203k
90th
$230k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python20.9%
  2. 2aws13.7%
  3. 3ci/cd10.9%
  4. 4kubernetes10%
  5. 5docker9%
  6. 6sql8%
  7. 7terraform8%
  8. 8java7.3%
  9. 9azure7.1%
  10. 10gcp6.6%
  11. 11rest apis6.2%
  12. 12linux5.9%

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.