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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

data processing

181 live US technical postings name data processing in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 181 postings naming data processing that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer75.7%
  2. 2Data Scientist6.6%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer6.1%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.3%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.2%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.2%
  7. 7Data Engineer1.7%
  8. 8Data Analyst1.1%

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.

Disclosed pay where data processing is named
n = 111
10th
$152k
25th
$189k
Median
$209k
75th
$242k
90th
$270k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA14.4%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA14.4%
  3. 3Seattle, WA9.9%
  4. 4New York, NY6.1%
  5. 5Remote6.1%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.3%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.2%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.1%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.