A new massive job market tracker from career company JobLeads shows what sets Salt Lake City apart: It’s a city of people who run things and people who build things.
Here’s what the study showed about Salt Lake City:
• No. 1 big city for management jobs. More than 1 in 5 new job postings in Salt Lake City (22.2 percent) is a management or operations role, the highest share of any US city with 50,000 or more postings. That's about 11,600 postings, ahead of Houston (21.4 percent), Charlotte (21.4 percent) and Phoenix (21.2 percent).
• Top 10 for engineering, too. Engineering makes up 10.8 percent of Salt Lake City postings, tied with Phoenix for No. 5 among 67 U.S. cities and well above the median city (8 percent). Salt Lake City is in the U.S. top 10 for both management and engineering jobs.
• Engineers bucked the slowdown. Overall, new job postings fell 4.6 percent from April to June, while the median U.S. city dipped 0.8 percent. But engineering postings rose 7.2 percent, HR 7.9 percent and legal 11.3 percent.
• Tech and sales pulled back. IT postings dropped 16.8 percent (median city: minus 10.6 percent) and sales fell 11.5 percent (median: minus 4.6 percent). Marketing and media postings fell 11.9 percent, one of the eight steepest drops in the U.S.
Salt Lake City is one of the country’s top engineering job markets. Engineering postings in Salt Lake City rose 7.2 percent in April-June 2026, even as total postings fell 4.6 percent. Engineering now makes up 10.8 percent of all Salt Lake City job postings, tied with Phoenix for No. 5 among 67 U.S. cities.
Top 10 US cities by share of job postings in engineering:
1. Huntsville, Alabama: 20.08 percent
2. Boise, Idaho: 16.38 percent
3. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: 12.41 percent
4. Houston: 11.41 percent
5. Phoenix (tie): 10.80 percent
5. Salt Lake City (tie): 10.80 percent
7. Wichita, Kansas: 10.79 percent
8. Savannah, Georgia: 10.54 percent
9. Raleigh, North Carolina: 10.38 percent
10. Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Indianapolis (tie): 10.36 percent
SALT LAKE CITY JOB MARKET AT A GLANCE:
• New job postings: 52,514, down 4.6 percent from January-March.
• Biggest fields: Management and operations 22.2 percent (about 11,600 postings), healthcare 15.6 percent (8,200), engineering 10.8 percent (5,700) and IT 9.2 percent (4,900).
• Growing: Legal, 11.3 percent; HR, 7.9 percent; engineering, 7.2 percent
• Shrinking: IT, down 16.8 percent; marketing and media, 11.9 percent; sales, 11.5 percent; and finance, 8.1 percent.
• Healthcare: 15.6 percent of postings, one of the eight lowest shares in the U.S. (median city: 22.5 percent).
• Seniority: 15.5 percent of postings are for team leads and managers, No. 15 in the U.S.
• Work setting (as of early 2026): 77 percent on-site, 11 percent hybrid, 11.5 percent fully remote.
“Salt Lake City’s job market is built around people who run operations and people who engineer things,” said Ricardo Meneses Flores, content and insights data analyst at JobLeads. “No big U.S. city has a larger share of postings in management, and engineering kept growing even as overall postings cooled.”
JobLeads has a specific Salt Lake City page accessible at jobleads.com.
