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The Texas Capital trading floor pictured, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Dallas.<\/p>\n
El\u00edas Valverde II\/Staff Photographer<\/p>\n
North Texas\u2019 economy may have lately become best known for its\u00a0yearslong finance industry surge<\/a>, but the region also continues emerging as a formidable tech hub, a new analysis of workforce and Bureau of Labor Statistics data suggests.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Dallas-Fort Worth area counted nearly 11,000 tech-related job postings last month, the third-most among all U.S. metro areas, the analysis from the IT company\u00a0CompTIA<\/a> showed. D-FW also had around 270 more tech job postings compared with a month earlier, the sixth-highest increase among metro areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n The tech-related postings don\u2019t translate perfectly into job gains\u00a0\u2014 not all postings will be filled, and the data doesn\u2019t capture tech jobs being eliminated or reclassified\u00a0\u2014 but the postings, which were also up around the country, do offer a strong indication of where employment in the sector is headed, said Seth Robinson, vice president of industry research at CompTIA.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n And in North Texas, the recent acceleration in postings comes after years of growth for the local tech workforce, a trend that\u2019s also tied to the region\u2019s larger corporate boom story.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThese tech jobs are popping up in a wide variety of industries\u00a0\u2014 it\u2019s not just in the high-tech industry,\u201d said Robinson. \u201cSo I think that really benefits a city like Dallas that\u2019s diversified. It\u2019s got a high population, and it\u2019s got a concentration in an area that might lean a little more heavily in technology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The country\u2019s 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\u2019s less obviously tech-heavy than cities like San Jose or Boston but does see a rising tech demand through its growing professional services sector and concentration of corporate headquarters, Robinson added.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really going to be one of the cities probably at the forefront of those two activities,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n CompTIA, a Chicago-area company that issues tech occupation certifications to workers around the world, issues monthly and annual reports on the U.S. tech workforce based on its reviews of data from Lightcast, a labor market data company, and the BLS. The company\u2019s latest monthly tech jobs report was published in early June and included data from the federal agency\u2019s May jobs report.\u00a0<\/p>\n That jobs report, released on Friday, was unexpectedly strong. It showed that in May U.S. employers added a net of 172,000 nonfarm jobs, more than twice as many as analysts had been predicting. The bureau also revised March and April employment figures upward by 93,000 jobs combined, while the national unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%.\u00a0<\/p>\n The surprising jobs gains\u00a0\u2014 which come as the country, and D-FW, are still broadly experiencing what analysts have dubbed a \u201clow-hire, low-fire\u201d economy<\/a> \u2014 were led by the leisure and hospitality and healthcare industries and the local government sector, which combined added 160,000 jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n On net, the month was also positive for tech workers: Across the U.S., the number of tech professionals working in all industries increased by 69,000 workers, according to CompTIA\u2019s analysis, while the tech industry added 6,700 jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n Those gains came even as some of the world\u2019s biggest tech companies\u00a0\u2014 most notably Meta<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 implemented wide-scale layoffs as part of a larger pivot to AI. The transformative technology has already reduced the need for workers at some Texas firms, according to a recent survey of manufacturing and service sector executives <\/a>by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and has also fueled wider fears about its future impact on American workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u201cI think the big question in terms of the labor market is, \u2018Is AI automating or augmenting workers? \u2019 Emily Kerr, a senior business economist at the Dallas Fed, recently told The News. \u2018\u2018Is it replacing or enhancing workers?\u2019 \u2026 And from our survey over the past couple of years, as we\u2019ve been asking about this, the answer continues to be both.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n Yet the country\u2019s broader tech workforce picture, Robinson said, has lately turned rosier, as more companies \u2014 especially small- and medium-sized businesses \u2014 continue to demand higher tech knowledge as they become more automated and in many cases begin adopting AI. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAll of those things, together, outweigh whatever is happening at these large bellwethers of the technology industry,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The uptick comes after a mostly flat 2025. At the beginning of last year, according to CompTIA\u2019s analyses, the U.S. tech industry, including tech workers and non-technical workers such as marketing or sales employees, employed 5.35 million workers, a number that dipped to 5.28 million by the end of the year. The number of tech workers across all sectors also dropped, from 6.72 million to 6.63 million. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n But this year, while the number of tech industry employees has essentially remained flat, the number of tech employees across all industries has risen by around 270,000 workers. Job postings across the country for tech occupations have also been rising, and listings that mention AI skill requirements have shot up dramatically.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n That trend continued last month, which saw around 269,000 new job postings, about 4,000 more new postings than in April, with the listings indicating the highest demand for roles that include software developers and engineers, tech support specialists and cybersecurity engineers.\u00a0<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n The local postings only add more workforce volume to what\u2019s already become one of the country\u2019s largest tech hubs: As of last year, according to CompTIA\u2019s 2026 annual report, D-FW counted a total of 377,00 people working either as tech workers or in the tech industry\u00a0\u2014 a number that ranked behind only New York among U.S. metro areas. For 2026, the IT company also 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\u2019s report counted San Francisco and San Jose as separate metro areas.)\u00a0<\/p>\n The report also 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. \u201cNot as high as something that you\u2019d see in Austin or San Francisco\u201d\u00a0\u2014 two metro areas where tech workers represent 13% of the workforce\u00a0\u2014 \u201cbut a relatively high percent,\u201d Robinson noted. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Another recent report<\/a>, from the commercial real estate giant CBRE, which used 2024 data, ranked D-FW\u2019s 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\u2019s number one primary data center market<\/a>. The regional economy\u2019s underlying makeup\u00a0\u2014 including its growing presence as a finance and professional services hub\u00a0\u2014 means the local tech postings are likely to keep coming, Robinson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Capital trading floor pictured, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in Dallas. 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