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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

data structures

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 195 postings naming data structures that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer82.1%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer4.6%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer4.1%
  4. 4Data Scientist3.1%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer2.1%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.5%
  7. 7Backend Engineer1%
  8. 8Data Engineer1%

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 structures is named
n = 74
10th
$131k
25th
$163k
Median
$191k
75th
$222k
90th
$263k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA13.8%
  2. 2New York, NY12.3%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA11.8%
  4. 4Remote8.7%
  5. 5Chicago, IL8.2%
  6. 6Seattle, WA6.7%
  7. 7Austin, TX3.1%
  8. 8Washington, DC3.1%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.