In a new list of the top U.S. metro areas with the most technology industry jobs open in the last year, San Francisco came in fifth while Silicon Valley placed ninth, according to a new analysis from Emsi Burning Glass.
But add the two numbers together — San Francisco's 155,858 tech jobs and Silicon Valley's 116,680 positions — and a different picture emerges. The greater Bay Area leaps to first place, with a combined total of 272,538 tech industry jobs posted in 2021.
That combined total beats out the top four on the list:
- New York City metro area, where tech employers posted 256,938 jobs
- Washington, D.C., area and suburbs with 229,886 job ads
- Dallas with 178,849 postings, and
- Los Angeles with 172,475 job listings.
The findings, which were published on the technology career sight Dice Insights, show the strength of other tech-focused markets in the country. New York has big outposts for companies like Google, Twitter, Amazon and Meta Platforms. Washington has a healthy and robust tech startup scene and is the area Amazon chose for its second headquarters. And Dallas has a growing tech sector; our sister publication Dallas Business Journal reported in November that local companies, like Cyber Group, planned to triple its size and had grown to about 250 employees.
Even though the greater Bay Area continues to be the leading region when it comes to tech jobs, another report from Emsi Burning Glass that broke down 2021's third quarter identified some weakness here when it came to measuring the growth of job listings.
Tech job postings in San Jose were only up 4% between the third quarter of 2020 and the third quarter of 2021. San Francisco posted just a 15% increase. Since the second quarter of 2021, tech job postings actually decreased 15% in San Jose.
Ty West with the Business Journals contributed to this report.
