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New York overtakes San Francisco as America's top tech talent market, CBRE finds

8/22/2026

Tech hiring velocity in any metro is bounded by a single upstream variable: how many qualified candidates already live there. Pulling engineers from other markets adds cost and time; the local pool is the constraint.

That constraint has shifted location. A new CBRE report places New York ahead of San Francisco as the leading U.S. AI is the mechanism reshaping demand.

AI-related roles now represent nearly one-third of all tech-talent job listings nationally, per CBRE.

That share matters because AI hiring concentrates rather than disperses: teams need engineers with specific skills, and those engineers tend to cluster.

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