Majority of tech jobs in Seattle, S.F., D.C.
Canada another hotbed, survey says
Tech job seekers take note: Go west, or head to our nation’s capital.
CapRelo, an international relocation company, looked at the 25largest metropolitan areas and cross-referenced job listings on LinkedIn during the first week of June to come up with a snapshot of the American workforce.
What CapRelo found is a booming market for tech jobs in Seattle (more than 50,000 open jobs), the San Francisco Bay Area (more than 40,000) and Washington, D.C. (nearly 40,000). Canada is another hotbed of tech hiring, according to CapRelo.
Tech is strong in multiple markets, CapRelo concluded, though not the most crucial in some of America’s biggest cities. Financial services (New York, Philadelphia), construction (Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston), retail (Chicago and Miami) and hospital and health care (Phoenix-Mesa, San Diego and Tampa-St. Petersburg) are booming as well.
“We are continuing to see a huge number of new software engineering and data science positions across the board.”
Paysa CEO Chris Bolte
“It certainly is a way to look at ... (what) plays into the full job market and what jobs are most in demand,” says David Cusick, who worked on the study.
Indeed, the thriving U.S. jobs market — unemployment dipped to 4.3% after 209,000 jobs were added in July — has reached what most economists deem full employment.
And while that could eventually lead to a glut in unfilled tech jobs — industry association CompTIA estimates 1.8 million by 2024 — other fields are on hiring binges.
Digging deeper, in a separate study, career assistance firm Paysa analyzed more than 8,200 job postings and more than 70,000 résumés from the world’s leading tech companies to figure out who’s hiring who and which skills are the most in demand.
What it discovered is the skill most in demand was computer science, followed by infrastructure, management and analysis.
The most-aggressive company hiring, Amazon, listed more than 80,000 jobs in the first quarter of this year — although many are in its fulfillment centers across the country. Microsoft and Oracle, each with more than 10,000 openings, were next.
“We are continuing to see a huge number of new software engineering and data science positions across the board,” Paysa CEO Chris Bolte says. “Whether at large established firms, or exciting startups, these workers are finding constant opportunities for growth.”
Getting hired doesn’t guarantee a long, fruitful career at many of the biggest tech companies, however.
Uber has the highest turnover rate with the average employee tenure being 1.2 years, according to Paysa. Facebook was tops, at just more than two years.