{"id":418009,"date":"2026-08-27T07:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:02:37","slug":"dallas-fort-worth-surpasses-la-enters-top-five-for-tech-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418009\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth surpasses LA, enters top five for tech jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/dallas-fortworth\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas-Fort Worth<\/a> has passed up a massive California market in a key technology ranking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Texas rose to No. 5 in North America among large markets for its technology workforce, according to a recent report by CBRE, the Dallas-based real estate firm. D-FW in 2025 surpassed the greater Los Angeles area, which fell to No. 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between 2022 and 2025, the Dallas area was among the biggest job gainers, adding more than 37,000 positions, the report showed. That\u2019s an increase of about 19%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 market for tech talent in 2025 was New York City, passing up the San Francisco Bay area. Toronto was No. 3 and Washington, D.C., was No. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas area is attracting technology talent as the area continues to bring new investments from locally grown companies and from those around the world. For example, South Korean tech giant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/technology\/article\/samsung-moving-u-s-headquarters-plano-22288252.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung Electronics<\/a> said earlier this year it\u2019s moving its U.S. headquarters to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/plano\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano<\/a> while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/technology\/article\/taiwan-lite-on-mckinney-campus-ai-jobs-22343272.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taiwan-based Lite-On has picked<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/mckinney\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McKinney<\/a> for a nearly $1 billion campus project. Dallas-based Texas Instruments is among those companies that are longtime players in the tech industry. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>D-FW\u2019s No. 5 ranking puts it ahead of markets such as Seattle and Boston while Texas cousins Austin and Houston placed in the top 20.<\/p>\n<p>The concentration of tech talent, or the percentage of total employment, was 5.8% in North Texas. The 50-market average was 5.5%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As companies across all industries use more technology, there is high demand for tech talent in both large and small markets,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Major gateway markets dominate overall tech talent growth because of their size.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, North Texas trailed Austin, Boston, Seattle and others for the \u201cTech Talent Scorecard.\u201d It ranked No. 8 by that grade, which uses more than a dozen metrics to measure each market\u2019s depth, vitality and attractiveness to companies seeking tech talent and to tech workers seeking employment.<\/p>\n<p>The D-FW market showed some strength in the crucial area of artificial intelligence. It ranked No. 6 for AI tech talent, edging out the greater Los Angeles area and Boston.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth has passed up a massive California market in a key technology ranking.\u00a0 North Texas rose to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5332,97766,918,116,118,117,88032],"class_list":["post-418009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-business-economy","tag-business-technology","tag-economy","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}