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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

data science

272 live US technical postings name data science 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 272 postings naming data science that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Scientist55.1%
  2. 2Software Engineer14.7%
  3. 3AI Engineer9.6%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer8.5%
  5. 5Data Analyst6.3%
  6. 6Data Engineer3.3%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.5%

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 data science is named
n = 124
10th
$140k
25th
$163k
Median
$205k
75th
$242k
90th
$280k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14.3%
  2. 2New York, NY13.6%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA11.8%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.3%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.8%
  6. 6Boston, MA4.4%
  7. 7Austin, TX3.3%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.5%

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.