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".

  1. 1Software Engineer55.3%
  2. 2AI Engineer11.7%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer10.2%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer6.6%
  5. 5Data Engineer4.1%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer4.1%
  7. 7Data Scientist2.5%
  8. 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.

Disclosed pay where codex is named
n = 128
10th
$144k
25th
$165k
Median
$199k
75th
$225k
90th
$265k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA23.9%
  2. 2Remote19.3%
  3. 3New York, NY9.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.6%
  5. 5Austin, TX4.6%
  6. 6Atlanta, GA2.5%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.5%
  8. 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.