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Austin Metro Area Tech Industry Job Trends Revealed
Job search engine Indeed analysts listed top 25 firms with tech jobs, highest salaries and most in-demand skills in metro area.
AUSTIN, TX β A noted job search engine has released new data showing the tech industry job trends in the Austin metro area β including the region's highest-paying positions, companies with the most vacancies and the skills most in demand.
βAs the need for tech roles continues to grow, it is even more crucial that companies look to solutions that will help them hire quality candidates and to close the talent gap in tech," Raj Mukherjee, a senior vice president of product at Indeed, said. "For example, looking to innovative solutions such as automated assessment tools that can help better evaluate candidates based on their abilities to perform the job they are applying."
Indeed listed the top 25 companies that had the most share of tech job postings in Austin:
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- IBM
- Charles Schwab
- Visa
- Amazon.com
- Dell
- AMD
- HomeAway
- The Home Depot
- Indeed
- University of Texas at Austin
- TriNet
- Rackspace
- NXP Semiconductors
- Apple
- Magento
- Health & Human Services Comm
- SailPoint
- Electronic Arts
- ARM Ltd.
- Cirrus Logic
- Express Scripts
- Ping Identity
- Cox Automotive
- Under Armour, Inc.
- Sonsoft Inc
Next, researchers listed the most in- demand tech jobs in Austin based on the percentage of the total share of tech job postings.
Job title/% of jobs
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- Software engineer/12.422
- Software architect/6.084
- Front end developer/4.527
- Full stack developer/4.471
- Development operations engineer/3.679
- Java developer/2.745
- Software test engineer/2.716
- Product manager/2.688
- Cloud engineer/2.462
- Application developer/2.349
- Product owner/1.924
- .Net developer/1.726
- Data warehouse engineer/1.556
- Software engineering manager/1.443
- Quality assurance engineer/1.33
- Back end developer/1.245
- Reliability engineer/1.16
- Firmware engineer/0.99
- Salesforce developer/0.905
- According to Indeed analysts, the following are the highest-paying tech jobs in Austin:
Tech job/average salary
- Data warehouse architect/$147,531.67
- Software engineering manager/$140,408.11
- Ruby on rails developer/$132,989.41
- Platform engineer/$125,962.16
- Software architect/$121,443.02
- ios developer/$117,262.52
- c++ developer/$117,105.42
- Agile coach/$117,074.72
- Development operations engineer/$115,515.66
- Python developer/$112,388.72
- Senior web developer/$111,695.88
- Senior .net developer/$110,879.88
- Android developer/$107,972.30
- Front end developer/$107,482.29
- Javascript developer/$107,446.68
- Database developer/$106,597.20
- Cloud engineer/$106,040.73
- Java developer/$105,863.89
- Full stack developer/$105,643.45
- Back end developer/$103,754.34
- Linux engineer/$103,083.74
- Salesforce developer/$102,472.90
- Automation engineer/$100,835.93
- Product manager/$99,885.20
- Database engineer/$99,768.33
And the most in demand tech skills in Austin, according to Indeed:
- Agile
- Java
- Javascript
- Python
- .NET
- AWS
- git
- C or C++
- Angular_JS
- Ruby
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