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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

forecasting

199 live US technical postings name forecasting 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 199 postings naming forecasting that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Scientist59.8%
  2. 2Data Analyst20.1%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer7%
  4. 4Software Engineer6.5%
  5. 5Data Engineer4%
  6. 6AI Engineer1%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform 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 forecasting is named
n = 102
10th
$130k
25th
$159k
Median
$182k
75th
$233k
90th
$281k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA19.6%
  2. 2Remote14.6%
  3. 3New York, NY10.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.5%
  5. 5Washington, DC4%
  6. 6Austin, TX3.5%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.5%
  8. 8Atlanta, GA1.5%

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.