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Job market reports · Metro · September 2026

Tech jobs in Washington, DC

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

Which roles are hiring

Share of Washington, DC technical postings by role.

  1. 1Software Engineer32.5%
  2. 2Data Analyst12.3%
  3. 3Security Engineer10.7%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer10.5%
  5. 5Data Engineer8.1%
  6. 6Data Scientist8%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer7.9%
  8. 8AI Engineer3.9%
  9. 9Machine Learning Engineer3.8%
  10. 10Frontend Engineer2.1%

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 = 340
10th
$115k
25th
$138k
Median
$163k
75th
$191k
90th
$216k

Skills in demand here

Share of postings in this market naming each skill.

  1. 1python37.4%
  2. 2aws24.6%
  3. 3ci/cd18.3%
  4. 4sql16.6%
  5. 5kubernetes15%
  6. 6docker14.9%
  7. 7terraform12.8%
  8. 8java12%
  9. 9javascript11.2%
  10. 10azure10.8%
  11. 11typescript10.7%
  12. 12linux10.4%

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.