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Cities need at least the minimum number of engineering openings to be ranked.","A city where one employer posts more than 50% of its openings is not ranked, so a single company cannot decide a city's score."],"builtAt":"2026-11-04T03:37:37.436Z","edition":"2026-11","measure":"swe","sources":["NextChapter job data: open professional roles on employer career sites, verified in the last week"],"baseline":{"label":"all cities in our data","valueLabel":"33%"},"keyFacts":["#1 San Francisco, CA: 3,412 openings","#2 Seattle, WA: 1,776 openings","#3 Los Angeles, CA: 1,159 openings","60 cities ranked in the West Coast","Data as of November 2026"],"placeNoun":"cities","commentary":["The lead is wide: San Francisco (3,412 openings) is well clear of Irvine at #10 (586 openings).","San Francisco is the largest market in the top ten, with 3,412 engineering openings behind its figure.","Cities with fewer than 30 engineering openings are not ranked, and small differences between neighbouring ranks are not meaningful."],"license":"Free to use and share with a link to https://launchyournextchapter.com/rankings/best-cities-for-software-engineering-jobs-in-the-west-coast"}