200+ Software & IT Jobs in Nashville, TN

Government wage anchors are solid but a bit dated: Nashville software developers had a median annual wage of $115,220 in May 2025, and the metro's broader computer and mathematical occupations group had a mean hourly wage of $48.78. More current posting-based signals are higher and more varied, with sampled local salary bands centered on about $105k to $180k, recent Software Engineer postings around $151,000–$175,000, and an Oracle Software Developer 1 posting at about $74,100–$148,300.

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Advertised pay

Across the 130 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $131,512 at the 25th percentile, $151,000 at the median and $171,650 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 25, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Nashville is a worthwhile but competitive market right now for software, IT, and cybersecurity professionals. The metro unemployment rate was 3.0% in July 2026, and professional and business services employment was up 4.2620% year-over-year in June 2026, so the broader local economy is still supportive of hiring. For this category specifically, Tennessee postings were up 7.5% year-over-year in August 2026 even though category employment was essentially flat, which points to selective hiring and backfills rather than a wide-open boom.

Best positioned: Your best odds are if you already have mid-to-senior experience in backend, cloud, platform, identity, or security-heavy engineering and are open to on-site work, since about 70% of sampled openings sit in enterprise software & network solutions, about 45% skew senior, and about 85% are on-site.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming Nashville is easy because unemployment is low; only about 5% of sampled openings are entry-level and about 5% are remote.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 207 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Oracle Corporation: 88 open roles
2. Deloitte: 12 open roles
3. Harris Group: 3 open roles
4. HealthStream, Inc.: 3 open roles
5. Trenchant: 3 open roles
6. Zipliens: 3 open roles
7. Amazon: 2 open roles
8. Capgemini Group: 2 open roles
9. Eitacies Inc: 2 open roles
10. Hopebridge: 2 open roles

Where the openings are

• Nashville: 173
• Franklin: 17
• Mount Juliet: 4
• Hermitage: 3
• Brentwood: 2
• Hendersonville: 2
• Smyrna: 2
• Chicago: 1

Work arrangement

on-site 165 (80%), hybrid 27 (13%), remote 13 (6%)

Where the demand is

Recent local demand is concentrated rather than evenly spread: the sample captured more than 350 postings across more than 75 companies in the last 90 days, yet employer concentration is explicitly marked as concentrated and Oracle Cloud alone accounted for more than 200 postings. The biggest lane is enterprise software & network solutions at about 70% of sampled openings, well ahead of general technology at about 10%, with smaller pockets in consulting, aerospace & defense, and healthcare at about 5% each. That mix helps explain where the real opportunities are. Employers tied to local tech expansion include Amazon, Oracle, HCA Healthcare, and AllianceBernstein, while current role-level signals show identity and platform work at NTT DATA Services and defense-oriented software hiring at Harris Corporation and L3Harris Technologies. Pure remote hunting is the weakest strategy locally because only about 5% of sampled openings are remote.

• Enterprise software & cloud platform engineering (high): This is the largest local lane: enterprise software & network solutions account for about 70% of sampled openings, with Oracle Cloud the standout named employer at more than 200 postings.
• Defense and cleared software work (moderate): This is a smaller slice than enterprise software, but active listings from Harris Corporation and L3Harris Technologies show real demand for software engineers in defense environments, including roles requiring a security clearance.
• Healthcare IT, identity, and security-adjacent engineering (moderate): Healthcare and enterprise identity show up through HCA Healthcare's local presence, a senior cybersecurity leadership opening in healthcare, and NTT DATA Services' Nashville identity-platform work.
• Remote-first junior software roles (limited): This is the weakest lane locally because about 5% of sampled openings are entry-level and about 5% are remote.

Where to focus: Aim first at senior backend, cloud, platform, identity, and security-adjacent roles inside enterprise software, defense, and healthcare-linked employers.

Roles worth searching next

• Technical product manager: Enterprise software, healthcare tech, and identity-heavy teams still need people who can translate user, compliance, and integration needs into delivery roadmaps.
• Implementation or solutions consultant: A market centered on enterprise software & network solutions creates room for customer-facing implementation and solutions work, especially for candidates with product knowledge but thinner coding depth.
• Business systems analyst: Healthcare and corporate operations employers in Nashville create a practical lane for people who can map workflows, integrations, and requirements around enterprise systems.
• GRC or security compliance analyst: Defense-clearance and healthcare-security signals suggest a real bridge path for candidates who know controls, audits, and documentation but are not yet competitive for hands-on security engineering.

What postings ask for

• Distributed systems (premium | immediate): It is the most-requested hard skill in the local sample at about 35%, which makes it a strong signal for backend, platform, and reliability-oriented roles. Who: Mid-career and senior engineers targeting backend, cloud, or platform work.
• Python (table_stakes | immediate): Python appears in about 30% of sampled local postings and also shows up in cybersecurity skill discussions, making it useful across both engineering and security automation paths. Who: Developers, automation-minded IT candidates, and cybersecurity entrants.
• Java plus API and integration work (premium | immediate): Java appears in about 30% of local postings, and NTT DATA Services' recent Nashville role specifically called for cloud-native Java APIs and integration services. Who: Backend engineers, enterprise developers, and candidates targeting identity or platform teams.
• Cloud infrastructure (premium | immediate): Cloud infrastructure appears in about 20% of sampled postings, and local organizations have publicly identified cloud computing as a skills gap while expanding AI and cloud training statewide. Who: Anyone targeting software engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud support roles.
• CI/CD (differentiator | immediate): CI/CD shows up in about 20% of local postings, so it is one of the fastest ways to prove you can operate in production-style engineering environments rather than just write code. Who: Entry-level and mid-career candidates who need stronger evidence of shipping ability.
• Enterprise identity / IAM (premium | near-term): Identity-related platform work is showing up locally through NTT DATA Services' Nashville buildout of an enterprise identity and customer profile platform. Who: Security-adjacent engineers, backend developers, and career switchers from enterprise IT.

Questions about this market

What do Software, IT & Cybersecurity roles pay in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

Government wage anchors are solid but a bit dated: Nashville software developers had a median annual wage of $115,220 in May 2025, and the metro's broader computer and mathematical occupations group had a mean hourly wage of $48.78. More current posting-based signals are higher and more varied, with sampled local salary bands centered on about $105k to $180k, recent Software Engineer postings around $151,000–$175,000, and an Oracle Software Developer 1 posting at about $74,100–$148,300. Nashville can pay well, especially for experienced engineers, but it is not a top-of-market tech metro: the local software developer median trails the national software developer median of $135,980, and the local computer/math mean hourly wage trails the national $57.73 comparison shown in BLS tables. The metro's overall cost-of-living index is 96.3, but housing runs 104.6, so compensation stretches better than in pricier hubs without making housing feel especially cheap.

Where is demand for Software, IT & Cybersecurity roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN concentrated?

Recent local demand is concentrated rather than evenly spread: the sample captured more than 350 postings across more than 75 companies in the last 90 days, yet employer concentration is explicitly marked as concentrated and Oracle Cloud alone accounted for more than 200 postings. The biggest lane is enterprise software & network solutions at about 70% of sampled openings, well ahead of general technology at about 10%, with smaller pockets in consulting, aerospace & defense, and healthcare at about 5% each. That mix helps explain where the real opportunities are. Employers tied to local tech expansion include Amazon, Oracle, HCA Healthcare, and AllianceBernstein, while current role-level signals show identity and platform work at NTT DATA Services and defense-oriented software hiring at Harris Corporation and L3Harris Technologies. Pure remote hunting is the weakest strategy locally because only about 5% of sampled openings are remote.

Which employers are hiring the most Software, IT & Cybersecurity talent in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

Recent postings show the most activity from Oracle Cloud (200 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Software, IT & Cybersecurity roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 10% hybrid, with 85% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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