The document summarizes top tech cities for hiring in 2013 and notable companies in each region. San Francisco tops the list and is seeing increased hiring from companies like SolarCity, PG&E and Genentech. Other top cities include Washington D.C., Minneapolis, St. Louis, New York City, Charlotte, Boston, Los Angeles, Denver, Raleigh and Omaha. The document also notes that many employers plan to increase hiring of temporary and contract workers in 2013.

1. Top 11 Major Tech Cities - 2013

2. 1. San Francisco & neighboring Bay Area
Notable Cos. In the region
1. LinkedIn
2. Facebook
3. Qualcomm (hiring 400)
4. Peformant Financial
5. Intuit (hiring)
6. Bear Data Solutions
7. TriNet
8. IntelePeer
9. Brightsource Energy
10. Meltwater Group
11. Splunk
12. NetApp (hiring 330 tech)
13. Intel (hiring)
14. Riverbed Technologies
Who’s Hiring? (hiring 250 techies)
• SolarCity (plans to hire 300 every quarter)
- includes Developers, Administrators, Integrations Engineers
• PG&E (set to hire 5,500 employees this year)
- Including Project Managers, Cyber Security, Analysts,
Administrators
• Genentech (will fill 600 new positions this year)
- Project Managers, ERP, D/W, Administrators, QA, Security
Analysts, Clinical Data

3. 2. Washington D.C.
Notable Cos. In the region
1. Lockheed Martin
2. Northrup Grumman
3. GXS
4. Intelligent Decisions
5. Govplace
6. Digitek Computer Products
7. Riverbed Technologies
8. Rackspace
9. Gartner
10. SAP
11. Turner Broadcasting
12. Akamai
• High potential region as 49% of employers plan to hire temporary and
contract workers in 2013 but it may be a slow start as employers are
cautious especially with Obamacare and reforms that may affect hiring.

4. 3. Minneapolis, MN
Notable Cos. In the region
1. Prime Therapeutics
2. Advanced BioEnergy
3. Loffler Companies
4. 3M
5. Thomson Reuters
6. Cargill
7. Medtronic
8. Ameriprise
9. Target
10. Wells Fargo
11. Prudential
• Minneapolis is one of the fastest growing IT markets with a large
number hiring predicted this year but the average rates are quite low
here.
• With a large number of major companies in this reach, Minneapolis is
definitely the city to watch.

5. 4. St. Louis, MO
Notable Cos. In the region
1. Emerson Electric
2. Anheuser-Busch
3. Monsanto
4. Charter Communications
5. Peabody Electric
6. Boeing
7. BJC Healthcare
8. Wal-Mart
9. Edward Jones
10. A. G. Edwards (Wells Fargo)
• St. Louis is going through some major transitions. The city is considered to be a
hotbed for IT jobs but at the same time major companies like Citibank, ConAgra, etc.
are laying off this year.
• This could also mean contract staffing may see a considerable rise though the locals
are traditionally used to fulltime jobs

6. 5. New York, NY
Notable Cos. In the region
1. Applico Inc. (hiring)
2. Prudential (hiring)
3. Warby Parker (hiring)
4. ZocDoc (hiring)
5. Avaya
6. Telx
7. TravelClick
8. Fab.com (offshore opp.)
9. Google
10. AOL
11. eBay
12. AppNexus
13. Etsy
14. Deloitte (hiring)
• The Start-up firms in NYC is predicted to grow exponentially this year resulting in
greater hiring. Since many of these are IT and Mobile App start-ups the tech hiring is
expected to be higher.
• Mobile and niche technologies are finding great traction in NYC according to NY Post.
• Express Personnel – a national staffing firm has opened 3 office in NYC itself to
capitalize on the anticipated IT hiring boom in the city.

7. 6. Charlotte, NC
Notable Cos. In the region
1. Bank of America
2. Lowe’s
3. Goodrich Corporation
4. SPX Corporation
5. Duke Energy
6. Time Warner Cable
7. Lending Tree
8. Babcock-Wilcox
9. Toshiba
10. Shaw Group
11. Wells Fargo
12. City of Charlotte
13. AT&T NC
• Charlotte is the 2nd largest banking center in US after NY. Financial Services,
Pharmaceuticals, Technology and Auto industry has seen recent gains in this city.
• Google and Apple have invested in large server farms near Charlotte with investments
close to $1 billion.

8. 7. Boston, MA
Notable Cos. In the region
1. Oracle (hiring)
2. Fiksu
3. Actifio
4. Eliassen (hiring)
5. HealthEdge (hiring)
6. HubSpot
7. Veracode
8. Rapid7
9. Acquia (hiring)
10. Bullhorn
11. Cogolabs
12. Aetna Health
13. Boston Consulting Group
• Boston has one of the youngest and most educated workforces in the country.
• Currently housing & real estate market is seeing tremendous growth but this is
expected to spread to other industry as well including tech.

9. 8. Los Angeles, CA
Notable Cos. In the region
1. RightScale
2. TelePacific Communications
3. WestLake Financial Services
4. DataDirect Networks
5. Netflix
6. Factual
7. ZestCash
8. Hulu
9. Cornerstone OnDemand
10. 2U, Inc
11. Northrop Grumman
12. MySpace
13. Kaiser Permanente
14. ULCA
• LA is poised to become the next hot-bed for entrepreneurs. A number of digital
technology services and innovative tech companies have got funding in the region.
After posting impressive figures, they are now hiring IT talents.

10. 9. Denver, CO
Notable Cos. In the region
1. Anadarko Petroleum Corp
2. FirstBank
3. Sage Hospitality
4. Global Technology
Resources
5. Accuvant
6. CH2M Hill
7. Comcast
8. Dish Network
9. Qwest Communications
10. Liberty Global
11. Liberty Media
12. Raytheon
13. United Airlines
14. Lockheed Martin
• Robert Half Technology's IT Hiring and Skills Report, said 18 % CIOs in
Colorado plan to hire IT staff in the first quarter of 2013 - nine points
above the national average.
• Denver has a strong base for Aerospace, Bioscience, Technology, Energy
& Renewable Energy industries.

11. 10. Raleigh, NC
Notable Cos. In the region
1. Progress Energy
2. State of NC
3. North Carolina State Uni.
4. Red Hat
5. First Citizens Bank
6. Duke Raleigh Hospital
7. Alcatel-Lucent
8. Allscripts
9. Cisco
10. Wake County
11. Rex Heatlhcare
12. City of Raleigh
13. INC Research
• 69 percent of Raleigh CIOs plan to hire only to fill open IT roles,
• Raleigh CIOs said It is most challenging to find skilled talent in the functional areas of
data/database management (17 %), applications development (15 %) and help
desk/technical support (13 %).
• 66% of CIOs also said they were confident that their firms would invest in IT projects
in the second quarter of 2013

12. 11. Omaha, NE
Notable Cos. In the region
1. First Data Corp.
2. Union Pacific
3. First National Bank of
Omaha
4. West Corp.
5. Wal-mart
6. ConAgra
7. Mutual of Omaha
8. Paypal
9. Omaha Public Power Dist.
10. City of Omaha
11. Doulas County
12. HyVee Inc.
13. Target
• Omaha is predicated to have a positive job market with most firms
hiring during the first and second quarters.
• Omaha's economy is still based on agriculture, telecommunications,
insurance, and banking
• Medical and healthcare are the major hiring companies in Omaha.

13. Some other notable insights
• Florida is also hiring numbers in IT especially these two companies are to be
watched: – Daren Restaurants, Publix Supermarkets
• As per Careerbuilder’s Survey 2013, spanning over 8000 respondents suggests
40% employers intend to hire temporary or contract staff. 42% of these are
projected to be CTH roles.
• Accenture is planning to add 1600 professionals with skill sets like:
 Oracle
 Java
 Hyperion
 SAP
 Workday
 Salesforce.com
 Siebel
 Peoplesoft
They are also looking to hire consultants with security clearance for their
Federal practice.
• Teradata is hiring around 100 consultants.
(http://news.dice.com/2013/02/26/getting-hired-teradat/)