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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

frontend

179 live US technical postings name frontend 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 179 postings naming frontend that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer68.2%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer18.4%
  3. 3AI Engineer7.3%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.4%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer1.7%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.1%

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 frontend is named
n = 96
10th
$155k
25th
$176k
Median
$201k
75th
$225k
90th
$253k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA31.8%
  2. 2New York, NY11.7%
  3. 3Remote8.9%
  4. 4Boston, MA6.1%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA5%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA3.4%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.8%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.2%

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.