It may surpries you to hear that CBRE’s new Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report features Portland. But what probably won’t surprise you is that the Rose City is near the bottom of the pack. 34th out of 50. So we’re still in the top 50. But lower than we would usually rank. Unfortunately, that slide puts us among the small handful of large markets that actually lost tech talent over the last three years. Down 3.5%. Somewhere around ~3000 people who used to do this work in tech around here. And now don’t.
Read MorePortland has definitely slipped among tech communities — but at least we’re still registering
