DALLAS, Texas — The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has emerged as one of the nation's top destinations for technology workers, ranking third behind only Washington, D.C., and New York City for tech job postings last month.
Nearly 11,000 tech-related positions were posted across the region in May 2026, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics compiled by CompTIA. The surge reflects DFW's growing reputation as a production-ready industrial base for technology, built on decades of corporate headquarters in financial technology, cybersecurity, telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance.
"DFW has always been a concentration for some of the industries that have become tech giants first," said Dr. Timothy Bray, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research at the University of Texas at Dallas. "Large scale data centers, large scale data infrastructure that is coming to North Texas. You know, Austin dreams it up, but the industries in North Texas are the ones that are putting it into production."
The region's tech ecosystem extends beyond corporate boardrooms. Chris Oyeku, a tech professional with more than a decade of experience in the area, founded MixerCloud in 2022 to fill what he saw as a gap in community networking. The events, now held every other month at venues including the W Hotel and Virgin Hotel, draw 400 to 500 attendees each and Oyeku is developing the concept into a mobile app.
"Dallas is built for the bigger technology corporations, compared to Austin was mainly the startups," Oyeku said. The arrival of large-scale data centers and data infrastructure investments across North Texas is expected to sustain the job growth, with 86 data centers currently planned for the region according to the Texas Tribune.
