Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

concurrency

246 live US technical postings name concurrency 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 246 postings naming concurrency that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer87.4%
  2. 2Backend Engineer4.9%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.3%
  4. 4Frontend Engineer2.8%

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 concurrency is named
n = 162
10th
$143k
25th
$171k
Median
$200k
75th
$232k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA15%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13%
  3. 3New York, NY11.4%
  4. 4Remote6.5%
  5. 5Los Angeles, CA4.1%
  6. 6Chicago, IL3.3%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.4%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.4%

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.