Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
codex
197 live US technical postings name codex 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 197 postings naming codex that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer55.3%
- 2AI Engineer11.7%
- 3Full-Stack Engineer10.2%
- 4Machine Learning Engineer6.6%
- 5Data Engineer4.1%
- 6Frontend Engineer4.1%
- 7Data Scientist2.5%
- 8DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.5%
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.
- 1San Francisco, CA23.9%
- 2Remote19.3%
- 3New York, NY9.6%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA7.6%
- 5Austin, TX4.6%
- 6Atlanta, GA2.5%
- 7Chicago, IL2.5%
- 8Washington, DC2%
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.