Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
claude
309 live US technical postings name claude in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 309 postings naming claude that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer47.2%
- 2AI Engineer12.6%
- 3Data Engineer7.1%
- 4Data Scientist5.5%
- 5Security Engineer5.5%
- 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.9%
- 7Full-Stack Engineer4.9%
- 8Data Analyst4.2%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote20.4%
- 2New York, NY12%
- 3San Francisco, CA11.3%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA4.2%
- 5Seattle, WA3.2%
- 6Washington, DC2.6%
- 7Boston, MA2.3%
- 8Denver, CO2.3%
How we counted
967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.