Dice.com, a popular tech job posting site, now offers nifty quarterly reports on the tech job markets in select major metro areas. Metro areas highlighted include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, and of course, Silicon Valley (San Jose).
Dice.com’s quarterly local market reports basically provide a brief overview of the tech job market in each metro area based on the number and type of postings listed on their site from each area.
While the site’s reports are not completely accurate representations of trends in the job market (they only represent job posting trends on Dice.com; not jobs available in each of those markets), they are interesting and worth a look.
Here are some of the highlights from the Q3 2006 reports:
- Silicon Valley leads the pack with the most jobs posted, largest number of tech jobs (214,000 added this year) and highest paying tech jobs, paying an average of $92,700 (No surprise given that it’s home to most of the tech giants and tons of tech startups)
- Nationally, the average salary for tech jobs is $70,300
- Techies in these markets earn more than the national average:
- Atlanta ($75,000)
- Baltimore ($76,100)
- Chicago ($71,400)
- Dallas ($71,400)
- Denver ($74,300)
- Hartford ($72,600)
- Houston ($71,400)
- L.A. ($73,600)
- San Jose ($92,000)
- D.C. and Baltimore tech job markets are being driven by government spending on homeland security, defense, etc
- Energy is driving Houston’s tech market
- Tech and entertainment firms are key to L.A.’s tech market (shocking!), but Hollywoodland has more actors than tech talent
- Financial services big in the Big Apple (NYC)
- Providence (RI) governor Donald Carcieri’s Science & Technology Tax Credit and statewide wifi initiative make Rhode Island ripe for Tech jobs
- The Inland Empire (Riverside/San Bernadino Counties in CA) is the 2nd fastest growing California “cybercity” (driven by influx of degreed workers and relocation of data centers, distribution centers and warehousing)
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