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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

claude code

594 live US technical postings name claude code 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 594 postings naming claude code that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer57.6%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer7.4%
  3. 3AI Engineer6.1%
  4. 4Data Engineer5.6%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.6%
  6. 6Data Scientist4.4%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer3.4%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer3.2%

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.

Disclosed pay where claude code is named
n = 340
10th
$136k
25th
$158k
Median
$187k
75th
$225k
90th
$265k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote23.6%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA16.7%
  3. 3New York, NY12.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.6%
  5. 5Austin, TX2.9%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.9%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2%
  8. 8Seattle, WA1.7%

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.