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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

claude

294 live US technical postings name claude in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 294 postings naming claude that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer45.6%
  2. 2AI Engineer13.3%
  3. 3Data Engineer6.8%
  4. 4Security Engineer6.5%
  5. 5Data Scientist5.8%
  6. 6Data Analyst5.4%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.8%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer4.8%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where claude is named
n = 170
10th
$114k
25th
$145k
Median
$183k
75th
$214k
90th
$243k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote22.4%
  2. 2New York, NY13.6%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA11.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.8%
  5. 5Seattle, WA2.7%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.7%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.4%
  8. 8Denver, CO2.4%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.