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Software Engineer Jobs in Houston

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Added in 7 days3Posted in the last 7 days, where the advert gives a date
Median pay$94,000 to $155,700Advertised salary: median of the 16 adverts that state annual pay, apprenticeships not included
Pay range

What Software Engineer pays in Houston

In context

Software Engineer pay across cities

Houston is 6 of 6 on the middle of the median advertised range for Software Engineer, among the biggest cities TUNAI tracks for this role.

CityMedian advertised payLive jobs
San Francisco$180,000 to $250,0002,158
New York$175,000 to $240,0001,632
Seattle$175,000 to $230,000622
Chicago$137,750 to $177,200365
Austin$130,500 to $174,300532
Houston$94,000 to $155,70099
Top skills

Most required skills

The skills that appear most in these adverts, as a share of the adverts.

  1. Python24%
  2. Java18%
  3. AWS14%
  4. C++14%
  5. CI/CD9%

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How this page is made: counted from the live adverts TUNAI reads on employers’ own careers sites, read on 6 Nov 2026 and recounted every night. Pay is the median of the adverts that state a yearly figure, never a guess. The method.