New York overtakes San Francisco as the top U.S. market for tech talent, according to a new CBRE report. The New York metro has 394,300 tech-talent jobs, edging out the San Francisco Bay Area’s 375,730—marking the first time New York has led in 13 years of CBRE’s analysis.
CBRE attributes the shift to changes in hiring tied to artificial intelligence. The outlets report that AI-related roles make up nearly one-third of all U.S. tech-talent job listings, a pattern described as an “AI realignment.” While the sources broadly agree on the rankings and job-count figures, they frame the emphasis differently: CNBC highlights the AI job-listing share, Quartz focuses on the competitive lead itself and its first-time nature, and The Next Web centers on the CBRE report’s topline comparison and its “AI Realignment Underway” subtitle.
