Washington DC was recently ranked 2nd among the top U.S. cities for engineering and other high-tech jobs, according to a report by the American Electronics Association. The AeA’s Cybercities 2008 report used the data gathered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2006, which is the most recent information available, to reach its conclusions. The New York metro area topped the list, followed by DC and Silicon Valley.

New York topped had the most positions in the tech services sector, including telecomm, Internet services, and computer training services and the Silicon Valley area led the U.S. in high tech manufacturing jobs. Washington DC, however, had one of the highest concentrations of engineering jobs and computer systems design positions. Overall, there were 295,800 jobs in the area that were considering high tech employment.

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