Top cities for tech jobs, some surprises (better, largest, places)

[Chimérique]

TOP CITIES FOR TECH JOBS, SOME SURPRISES

Percetage increases, top employers:

1. Raleigh - 50% - Qualcomm, Cisco, IBM

2. Richmond - 50% - Version, Honeywell, Northrup-Grumann

3. Sacramento - 37% - Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Aerojet

4. Houston - 37% - FMC, Comcast, BMC

5. Kansas City - 30% - Sprint-Nextel, Garmin, DST Systems

6. Portland - 29% - IBM, HP, Xerox

7. St. Louis - 26% - Boeing, AT&T, Ameren Corp.

8. San Diego - 24% - Qualcomm, Oracle, Teradata

9. Boston - 24% - Raytheon, EMC, Novell

10. Denver - 23% - City Link, Dish Network, AT&T


March 2012: Fastest-Growing Cities for Technology Jobs | Dice Media Center

Sacramento ranks among fastest-growing cities for tech jobs - Sacramento Business Journal

[BLAXTOR]

This isn't about the top cities for tech, it's about the fastest growing tech markets in America. Two very different things

[kidphilly]

This is the list who added the most from the same link

[Chimérique]

Thanks for posting that graphic; I was going to post that as well.

No surprises there, of course you will see the largest metros, plus the largest tech centers on these growth lists.

The focus of this thread is the fastest growing in the last year.

[Chimérique]

[kidphilly]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Thanks for posting that graphic; I was going to post that as well.

No surprises there, of course you will see the largest metros, plus the largest tech centers on these growth lists.

The focus of this thread is the fastest growing in the last year.

Yes is good to see growth

It should be noted that some of the larger ones also posted 20+% growth in Boston, Seattle, Philly, Atlanta, and Dallas

With LA at 19% and Chicago at 16%; great for all areas.

Growth and absolutes portray a better picture IMHO than either alone.

Am glad to see many areas growing though am not sure what the growth in DICE listings actually means but overall looks positive for many places

[Chicago60614]

I'm curius what the base of jobs is they're growing off of. I mean 50% is a lot cooler on 25,000 jobs than 100.

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

It should be noted these arent the cities with the most tech jobs, but rather the ones with the largest percentage increase in tech jobs.

But Im actually not really surprised by the results.

[OyCrumbler]

Good news all around. Kansas City should be ramping up more since they're getting Google Fiber.

Also, it looks like they listed Silicon Valley as its own entity so that probably means they aren't combining it with SF and East Bay which generally also do fairly well.

Since this is a percentage thing though, it would be incredible if SV actually made the top ten for growth because a growth percentage like that would equate to far more jobs than it would be for most other metros.