Utah

Feeny lists roughly 465 open tech roles in Utah from 125 companies hiring. The postings come off employer career pages and turn over as roles fill, so the count stays current. Most of them sit along one corridor, which is why Utah punches so far above its size for tech.

The action runs along Silicon Slopes, the corridor from Salt Lake City through Lehi down to Provo. Lehi in particular has become a magnet for software companies. Across the 2 Utah cities we index, that stretch holds one of the strongest startup markets anywhere outside the coasts, so most open roles cluster there.

Qualtrics, Podium, and Lucid all built large software businesses along the Silicon Slopes corridor, and they set the tone for the state's hiring. Around them sits a deep bench of enterprise SaaS companies that keep drawing founders and engineers. The result is a market where you can find serious software work without leaving the corridor.

The state skews hard toward enterprise SaaS: backend, full-stack, and product roles at companies selling software to other businesses. A young, fast-growing workforce keeps the talent pool deep and the founder count high. If you want consumer or hardware, Utah is thinner, but for B2B software it is one of the best markets in the country outside the coasts.

Cost of living runs about 3 percent above the national average, and Salt Lake City housing has been climbing fast as the market grows, so the old bargain is tightening. What draws people is the combination: a strong startup scene, a young workforce, and mountains an hour from the office. The catch is that housing costs are rising to meet the demand, so the affordability edge is not what it was five years ago.