North Texas ranks among country’s hottest metros for tech job postings, report shows June 2026

North Texas ranks among country’s hottest metros for tech job postings, report shows June 2026

The corporate boom has also brought tech companies along with it.

By: David Broder

The country’s broad AI transformation and digital transformation, two macro trends that have been driving up tech postings recently, could also end up leading to more tech jobs in greater Dallas, a region that’s less obviously tech-heavy than cities like Austin or SF, but does see a rising tech demand through its growing professional services sector and concentration of corporate headquarters. Dallas is growing into one of the cities probably at the forefront of those two activities.

Among the country's three metros % of businesses in Dallas-Fort Worth answered "yes" to the question "In the last two weeks, did this business use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in any of its business functions? The U.S. Census Bureau started collecting the

data in late 2025.

D-FW, with nearly 11,000 tech job postings last month, ranked behind only New York and Washington, D.C., which counted around 19,000 and 17,000, respectively. North Texas also had about 1,000 tech job postings from the finance sector, a number that was second only to New York, and around 2,300 postings for remote tech roles, a figure that ranked behind only New York and Washington, D.C.

The local postings only add more workforce volume to what’s already become one of the country’s largest tech hubs: As of last year, according to CompTIA’s 2026 annual report, D-FW counted a total of 377,00 people working either as tech workers or in the tech industry — a number that ranked behind only New York among U.S. metro areas.

For 2026, the IT company projected D-FW would have 232,000 tech workers across all industries, behind only New York and Washington, D.C. and ahead of Los Angeles and San Francisco. (Comptia’s report counted San Francisco and San Jose as separate metro areas.)

The report estimated that the tech sector had a nearly $90 billion

impact on the D-FW economy, and that tech workers constituted nearly 9% of the area workforce. Another recent report, from the commercial real estate giant CBRE, which used 2024 data, ranked D-FW’s overall tech workforce slightly lower, as the fifth largest among U.S. metro areas, but its second fastest growing.

Dallas was also recently named the world’s number one primary data center market. The regional economy’s underlying makeup — including its growing presence as a finance and professional services hub — means the local tech postings are likely to keep coming,