Software Engineer Jobs in Charlotte, NC

The clearest local government pay anchor is the Charlotte computer and mathematical occupation family: annual median pay was $120,930 in 2025, with the 25th percentile at $82,610, the 75th percentile at $141,470, and the 90th percentile at $169,570. BLS also reported a $56.88 mean hourly wage for Charlotte computer and mathematical occupations in May 2025, while older software-developer-specific metro data put the software developer median at $134,550 in May 2023. More current posting-based signals are directionally similar: local posted salary ranges center on about $108k to $146k, and North Carolina's mean offered salary on new software, IT & cybersecurity openings was ~$116,607 in September 2026 per Revelio Public Labor Statistics (n=1,394).

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Advertised pay

Across the 89 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $80,000 at the 25th percentile, $127,700 at the median and $147,500 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Charlotte is still a real market for Software, IT & Cybersecurity, but it is strongest for people who match enterprise demand rather than broad tech-generalist demand. Metro unemployment was 3.7% in August 2026, total nonfarm employment was up 1.5427% year-over-year, and professional and business services employment was up 3.5088% year-over-year, which supports continued hiring in larger-company tech functions. The catch is that Charlotte's information sector was down 6.2257% year-over-year, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows North Carolina software, IT & cybersecurity employment down 1.2% year-over-year even as postings rose 43.8% year-over-year, which points to selective hiring and replacement hiring more than an easy boom. Local postings also skew toward mid and senior talent, so the market is good for the right profile and much tougher for entry-level or remote-only applicants.

Best positioned: The best odds right now are for mid-to-senior candidates in Java, cloud, CI/CD, AWS, Python, SQL, and enterprise platform work, especially if they can show banking, payments, or regulated-environment experience.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is treating Charlotte like a remote-first or entry-friendly tech market when only about 5% of sampled postings were remote and only about 10% were entry level.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 176 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Powerus: 8 open roles
2. SolomonEdwardsGroup, LLC: 6 open roles
3. Bank of America Corporation: 5 open roles
4. Lowe's: 5 open roles
5. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group: 4 open roles
6. Truist Financial Corporation: 4 open roles
7. Wells Fargo Company: 4 open roles
8. Ally: 3 open roles
9. ALLY: 3 open roles
10. Intuit, Inc.: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Charlotte: 134
• Rock Hill: 13
• Gastonia: 5
• Fort Mill: 5
• Concord: 4
• Indian Land: 2
• Monroe: 2
• Matthews: 2

Work arrangement

on-site 103 (59%), hybrid 61 (35%), remote 12 (7%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is clustered in enterprise environments, not a broad startup-style market. Within the local posting sample, about 25% of roles came from technology, information and internet employers, about 25% from IT services and IT consulting, and about 15% from financial services. Charlotte's broader professional and business services base was 230.1 thousand jobs in August 2026 and grew 3.5088% year-over-year, which helps explain why consulting-led and internal-enterprise tech work is so visible. The local stack is especially friendly to candidates who can support regulated, large-company systems. Torc describes Charlotte software work as enterprise-oriented and heavily focused on Java, cloud technology, and financial-services context, and it identifies Wells Fargo as a leading local poster for Java platform developers, Snowflake architects, and payments engineers. At the same time, hiring is fragmented across employers rather than dominated by one company, with more than 550 recent postings spread across more than 200 companies. Cybersecurity demand looks practical rather than flashy. Recent Charlotte events highlighted cyber resilience, autonomous pentesting, remediation verification, data resilience, and recovery, which lines up better with security engineering, cloud security, IAM, and detection-focused work than with purely policy-heavy profiles.

• Enterprise software in banking and payments (high): This is the clearest local lane: Charlotte demand is concentrated around enterprise Java, cloud, and financial-services technology, with Wells Fargo specifically linked to Java platform, Snowflake, and payments work.
• IT services, consulting, and internal transformation work (high): Consulting and services matter because about 25% of sampled postings came from IT services and IT consulting, and the metro's professional and business services base is still growing.
• Cybersecurity and resilience operations (moderate): Local security signals point toward hands-on resilience, recovery, and security-engineering work rather than only compliance language, and national cyber demand is adding more AI-related requirements.
• Remote-first generalist software roles (limited): This is the weakest lane locally because only about 5% of sampled postings were remote, so Charlotte is a poor market for a remote-only strategy.

Where to focus: Focus on enterprise engineering, cloud/platform, and security roles inside banks, consultancies, and large internal IT teams rather than remote-first consumer software teams.

Roles worth searching next

• Data engineer / analytics engineer: The overlap is strong if you already have SQL, Python, cloud, and enterprise delivery skills, and Charlotte consulting-side demand explicitly includes data engineer roles.
• Data and AI specialist: Charlotte expansions include data and AI specialist hiring, and national employer guidance says machine learning and data science remain in-demand technology skills.
• Governance, risk, and privacy analyst: Governance and privacy expertise is being called out as an in-demand technology capability, which creates an entry path for people who are more controls-oriented than engineering-heavy.
• Fintech operations / investment operations analyst: Charlotte's finance-heavy employer mix and new hub activity include investment operations alongside software and data hiring, which creates tech-adjacent openings for people who understand systems and workflows.

What postings ask for

• Java (differentiator | immediate): Charlotte software demand is notably enterprise-oriented and Java-heavy, and Java appears in about 25% of sampled local postings. Who: Backend engineers, platform engineers, and developers targeting banks or large enterprise teams.
• AWS and cloud architecture (differentiator | immediate): AWS appears in about 25% of sampled local postings, and cloud skills sit in the middle of Charlotte's enterprise hiring pattern. Who: Mid-career developers, DevOps candidates, cloud engineers, and infrastructure-minded switchers.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (differentiator | near-term): It is the certification most often explicitly required in the local sample, even though it appears in less than 5% of postings, so it works better as a tie-breaker than as a standalone ticket. Who: Candidates targeting cloud, platform, architecture, or consulting-facing roles.
• CI/CD, Git, and microservices (table_stakes | immediate): CI/CD and SQL each show up in about 30% of sampled postings, Git in about 25%, and microservices in about 20%, which signals that delivery workflow matters almost as much as language choice. Who: Developers, SREs, QA automation candidates, and career switchers building proof-of-work portfolios.
• Python and SQL (table_stakes | immediate): Python and SQL each appear in about 30% of sampled local postings, and Python also shows up in the emerging AI-oriented cybersecurity skill stack. Who: Software engineers, automation candidates, security engineers, and people pivoting toward data-adjacent technical roles.
• Financial-services and payments domain knowledge (premium | near-term): Charlotte demand is unusually tied to banking and payments context, and local hiring signals specifically call out payments engineering and financial-services technology. Who: Anyone targeting enterprise software, architecture, cloud, IAM, or cyber roles in Charlotte.

Questions about this market

What do Software, IT & Cybersecurity roles pay in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC?

The clearest local government pay anchor is the Charlotte computer and mathematical occupation family: annual median pay was $120,930 in 2025, with the 25th percentile at $82,610, the 75th percentile at $141,470, and the 90th percentile at $169,570. BLS also reported a $56.88 mean hourly wage for Charlotte computer and mathematical occupations in May 2025, while older software-developer-specific metro data put the software developer median at $134,550 in May 2023. More current posting-based signals are directionally similar: local posted salary ranges center on about $108k to $146k, and North Carolina's mean offered salary on new software, IT & cybersecurity openings was ~$116,607 in September 2026 per Revelio Public Labor Statistics (n=1,394). Charlotte still pays like a serious tech market. The local occupation-family median of $120,930 sits above the national SOC 15 median of $109,280, but that premium is tied to enterprise and experienced work more than easy access.

Where is demand for Software, IT & Cybersecurity roles in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC concentrated?

Real opportunity is clustered in enterprise environments, not a broad startup-style market. Within the local posting sample, about 25% of roles came from technology, information and internet employers, about 25% from IT services and IT consulting, and about 15% from financial services. Charlotte's broader professional and business services base was 230.1 thousand jobs in August 2026 and grew 3.5088% year-over-year, which helps explain why consulting-led and internal-enterprise tech work is so visible. The local stack is especially friendly to candidates who can support regulated, large-company systems. Torc describes Charlotte software work as enterprise-oriented and heavily focused on Java, cloud technology, and financial-services context, and it identifies Wells Fargo as a leading local poster for Java platform developers, Snowflake architects, and payments engineers. At the same time, hiring is fragmented across employers rather than dominated by one company, with more than 550 recent postings spread across more than 200 companies. Cybersecurity demand looks practical rather than flashy. Recent Charlotte events highlighted cyber resilience, autonomous pentesting, remediation verification, data resilience, and recovery, which lines up better with security engineering, cloud security, IAM, and detection-focused work than with purely policy-heavy profiles.

Which employers are hiring the most Software, IT & Cybersecurity talent in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC?

Recent postings show the most activity from Synechron (50 postings), Tata Consultancy Services Limited (30 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Software, IT & Cybersecurity roles in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 35% hybrid, with 60% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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