Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
cursor
515 live US technical postings name cursor 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 515 postings naming cursor that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer56.9%
- 2Data Engineer6.8%
- 3Full-Stack Engineer6.8%
- 4AI Engineer4.7%
- 5Data Scientist4.7%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer4.7%
- 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.3%
- 8Frontend Engineer4.1%
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.
- 1Remote20.8%
- 2San Francisco, CA18.3%
- 3New York, NY12%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA7.4%
- 5Austin, TX3.1%
- 6Boston, MA2.7%
- 7Atlanta, GA1.4%
- 8Los Angeles, CA1.4%
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.