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These Companies Turned to D.C. The Most for Tech Talent in 2017


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Amazon, IBM and Booz Allen Hamilton are among the firms that posted the most tech job listings in the D.C. metro area in 2017, a new report from Indeed shows.

Job listing site Indeed released a report today showing the companies with the highest share of tech job listings in the region, along with which job titles were most in demand, the most in-demand tech skills and the roles that came with the highest salaries.

Software engineers are most in-demand in the D.C. metro area. The position made up 12.2 percent of all tech listings in 2017, with the second most in-demand job being Java developers at 4.74 percent.

With that, the position agile coach had the highest paying average salary at $190,821, and the second highest salary was for the position of development operations manager at $146,352.

In the job listings, Indeed spotted that the most wanted skills by employers are Java, agile, JavaScript and Oracle, in that order.

Among the companies with the most share of tech job postings in the D.C. metro area are Leidos, Capital One, CSRA and Lockheed Martin.

Here are the complete table listings, per Indeed:

Top 25 Companies that had the most share of tech job postings in DC
Booz Allen Hamilton
Leidos
Capital One
CACI International Inc
CSRA
General Dynamics Information Technology
Northrop Grumman
Amazon.com
Lockheed Martin
Unisys
ManTech International Corporation
BAE Systems
Vencore
Accenture
IBM
SAIC
Engility Corp
Fannie Mae
CGI Group
Freddie Mac
Deloitte
Mitre Corporation
DXC Technology
Raytheon
Bay State

Most in demand tech jobs

  in DC (Based on % of the total share of tech job postings)

Job Title % all jobs
Software Engineer 12.194
Java Developer 4.741
Senior Software Engineer 4.12
Development Operations Engineer 3.53
Front End Developer 3.056
Full Stack Developer 3.032
Cloud Engineer 2.398
.net Developer 2.355
Web Developer 2.281
Sharepoint Developer 2.165
Application Developer 1.962
Software Test Engineer 1.857
Quality Assurance Engineer 1.316
Data Warehouse Engineer 0.984
Product Manager 0.978
Linux Engineer 0.849
Integration Engineer 0.806
Infrastructure Engineer 0.775
Salesforce Developer 0.763

Most in demand tech jobs

  in DC (Based on % of the total share of tech job postings)

Job Title % all jobs
Software Engineer 12.194
Java Developer 4.741
Senior Software Engineer 4.12
Development Operations Engineer 3.53
Front End Developer 3.056
Full Stack Developer 3.032
Cloud Engineer 2.398
.net Developer 2.355
Web Developer 2.281
Sharepoint Developer 2.165
Application Developer 1.962
Software Test Engineer 1.857
Quality Assurance Engineer 1.316
Data Warehouse Engineer 0.984
Product Manager 0.978
Linux Engineer 0.849
Integration Engineer 0.806
Infrastructure Engineer 0.775
Salesforce Developer 0.763

Most in demand tech skills in D.C.

  • Java
  • Agile
  • JavaScript
  • Oracle
  • .NET
  • AWS
  • Python
  • Git
  • Angular_JS
  • Microsoft_sql_server

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