Hiring index / August 2026
US Data Center Hiring Snapshot: August 2026
Where 62 monitored employers have live openings, which skills they need and what 769 employer-stated salary records say about advertised pay.
Published / Data frozen at 10:15 UTC
1,341
live jobs
62
employers hiring
41
states represented
57.3%
with stated pay
The readout
Three signals in the live market
24.7%
of jobs are in Texas
Texas accounts for 331 monitored openings, compared with Virginia's 150.
56.0%
Construction or technician
These two role families make up 752 of the 1,341 live openings.
57.8%
at the top 10 employers
The ten largest hiring lists contain 774 live roles in this snapshot.
These are characteristics of Data Center JobHub's monitored employer set, not an estimate of every US data center vacancy. Coverage changes can move the totals, which is why this first edition is a snapshot rather than a month-over-month index.
Geography
Texas and Virginia hold 35.9% of openings
The concentration is visible at state level: 481 of the 1,341 jobs are in Texas or Virginia. Across the dataset, jobs appear in 254distinct city-and-state combinations.
Role demand
Building and operating capacity drives the list
Construction is the largest role family at 400 jobs, followed by data center technician roles at 352. Critical facilities engineer adds another 183 openings.
Employers
The largest live hiring lists
Amazon Data Services leads the monitored set with 175 openings. The ranking measures live listings, not headcount or company growth.
| Employer | Live jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Data Services | 175 | 13.0% |
| 108 | 8.1% | |
| QTS Data Centers | 102 | 7.6% |
| IREN | 71 | 5.3% |
| NTT Global Data Centers | 71 | 5.3% |
| Oracle | 57 | 4.3% |
| Microsoft | 51 | 3.8% |
| CyrusOne | 49 | 3.7% |
| IES Holdings | 47 | 3.5% |
| Fluidstack | 43 | 3.2% |
Advertised pay
What employer-stated ranges show
Employers state a salary range on 769 listings, or 57.3% of the snapshot. Annual and hourly listings are reported separately. Each figure below is the median advertised lower or upper bound within a broad role group, not median worker earnings.
Annual salary listings
| Role group | Listings | Median low | Median high |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction | 163 | $133,000/yr | $200,000/yr |
| Data center operations | 87 | $138,000/yr | $200,000/yr |
| Data center technician | 80 | $86,000/yr | $119,000/yr |
| Critical facilities engineer | 64 | $102,100/yr | $166,300/yr |
| Commissioning | 42 | $120,000/yr | $165,000/yr |
| Logistics | 34 | $114,300/yr | $194,500/yr |
| NOC technician | 19 | $162,000/yr | $221,000/yr |
| Security | 16 | $139,700/yr | $195,000/yr |
Hourly wage listings
| Role group | Listings | Median low | Median high |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data center technician | 166 | $30.00/hr | $49.50/hr |
| Critical facilities engineer | 30 | $33.51/hr | $46.00/hr |
| Security | 21 | $20.19/hr | $28.85/hr |
| HVAC technician | 12 | $40.00/hr | $50.00/hr |
| Construction | 12 | $35.00/hr | $45.00/hr |
Methodology
How this snapshot was built
- Cutoff: live US listings in the Data Center JobHub database at 10:15 UTC on September 2, 2026.
- Scope: 1,341 jobs from 62 monitored employers. Closed, expired and duplicate listings are excluded.
- Roles: job titles are grouped into broad data center role families. A family can include several seniority levels and specialties.
- Pay: only employer-stated USD amounts are included. Estimated salaries are excluded, and samples with different pay periods are not combined.
- Limits: this is a census of the monitored listings, not the entire US labor market. A stable employer panel is required before reporting a defensible monthly trend.
Reuse and citation
These aggregates are published under CC BY 4.0. You may republish and adapt them, including commercially, with credit to Data Center JobHub and a link to this report. The licence covers the aggregate tables only — not the underlying job listings, which belong to the employers who published them.
Cite this edition: Data Center JobHub (2026). US Data Center Hiring Snapshot: August 2026. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22261858