Tech Industry in Miami, Florida

In March 2026, Miami-Dade County had 18,296 private jobs in the information sector and 12,630 in computer systems design, by the federal Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (BLS QCEW, Miami-Dade first quarter 2026).

BLS released the first quarter 2026 county data on August 28, 2026, with employment for March 2026 and average weekly wages for the first quarter of 2026 (BLS news release). The counts below are for all of Miami-Dade County, not the City of Miami alone.

Together, information and computer systems design came to about 30,900 Miami-Dade private jobs in March 2026, under 3 percent of the county's 1,138,952 private jobs (BLS QCEW). Both tech lines shrank over the year: Miami-Dade information employment was 19,400 in March 2025 and computer systems design 12,976 (BLS QCEW, first quarter 2025), so the county lost about 1,100 information jobs and about 350 computer systems design jobs between March 2025 and March 2026.

The Miami-Dade Beacon Council reports more than 2,000 Miami startups supporting roughly 90,000 jobs and a startup ecosystem valued at about $95 billion (Beacon Council technology page).

The Beacon Council's 90,000 jobs and the BLS count of about 30,900 Miami-Dade tech payroll jobs are not the same measure; the Beacon Council writes that innovation in Miami extends beyond technology companies alone. It says South Florida startups raised $2.41 billion across 393 deals in 2023, 69 percent of Florida's venture capital, and that in 2024 the Miami to Fort Lauderdale region secured $2.77 billion, ranking sixth nationally by deal count and ninth by deal value (Beacon Council).

On rankings, the Beacon Council reports that Miami's startup ecosystem rose to 16th globally in 2024 from 23rd a year earlier, counts six active unicorns, 12th among U.S. ecosystems, and puts total exit value at $2.1 billion (Beacon Council). It also says that of nearly 481 Miami startups that have each raised over $1 million, 73 percent were founded since 2010, and that about 35 percent of Miami startups are founded by Latino entrepreneurs.

The Beacon Council names fintech, healthtech and climate tech as the leading Miami tech subsectors and ranks Miami 11th globally in the Energy and Environment sector (Beacon Council technology page).

Federal payroll data show where Miami-Dade tech jobs sit. Computer systems design employed 12,630 people in March 2026, far more than the 2,478 at Miami-Dade software publishers (BLS QCEW). The smallest of the four lines, computing infrastructure, data processing and web hosting, had 1,990 Miami-Dade jobs but the highest first quarter 2026 average weekly wage, $6,708 (BLS QCEW).

Among organizations, the Beacon Council names Refresh Miami, Kaseya and IDC Ventures as key players in the Miami ecosystem, and eMerge Americas and Miami Tech Summit as the region's high-profile tech events (Beacon Council). It names Miami Tech Works and the Tech Talent Coalition as initiatives nurturing local talent, Tech Equity Miami as expanding opportunities for underrepresented groups, and the ClimateReady Tech Hub and Endeavor Miami as efforts backed by pro-tech policymakers (Beacon Council). It also calls public-private partnerships, including the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority, essential to overcoming the local tech talent shortage.

Miami Dade College runs two AI Centers, at its Wolfson Campus and its North Campus, and says they will house Florida's first College Credit Certificate and Associate of Science degrees in AI (Miami Dade College AI Centers).

The college lists the AI Center at Wolfson Campus in Building 2, 300 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33132, and the AI Center at North Campus in Building 1, 11380 NW 27th Ave, Miami, FL 33167 (Miami Dade College). The North Campus center, by the college's description, includes advanced AI and quantum computing classrooms, a makers space, a design thinking and robotics lab and an AI Command Center (Miami Dade College).

The AI Centers page lists the phone number 305-237-1160 and the email [email protected], and gives college live chat hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday (Miami Dade College). On the employer side, the Beacon Council names Miami Tech Works and the Tech Talent Coalition as initiatives focused on nurturing local talent and a sustainable pipeline for the region's tech ecosystem (Beacon Council).

Miami-Dade County is one of three funders of the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority, an independent nonprofit that says it launched in 2023 with a $9 million equal match from the Knight Foundation, Ken Griffin and the county (MDIA about page).

By its own account, the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority ran 8 Public Innovation Challenges from 2023 to 2025 in partnership with Miami-Dade County, covering Miami International Airport, PortMiami, solid waste, housing access, mobility and emergency management (MDIA). The model, as the nonprofit describes it, runs from diagnosing a local problem through an open challenge, a co-designed pilot and direct funding of the companies, to clearing a path to county procurement.

In 2026 the organization says it expanded its public innovation model to communities across the United States, with MDIA as the umbrella for national work and the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority still focused on South Florida (MDIA). The Beacon Council describes the Miami-Dade Innovation Authority as a public-private partnership that invests in scalable tech solutions to local challenges (Beacon Council).

The next marker on the Miami tech calendar is eMerge Americas, which lists its conference in Miami for March 2 to 4, 2027 (eMerge Americas).

The organizer claims 20,000 plus attendees, 60 plus countries, 300 plus speakers and 400 plus exhibitors for the Miami event, and describes it as a cross-industry conference for AI and deep tech, national security, health and finance (eMerge Americas). Those are the organizer's own figures.

The harder signal is the payroll count. Miami-Dade information jobs fell from 19,400 in March 2025 to 18,296 in March 2026 (BLS QCEW 2025; BLS QCEW 2026). Readers comparing sources should also note that the Beacon Council technology page shows 2,500+ Startups in its headline figures while its text says more than 2,000 startups (Beacon Council), so the lower, text figure is the one used on this Miami page.