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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

frontend

159 live US technical postings name frontend 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 159 postings naming frontend that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer67.3%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer19.5%
  3. 3AI Engineer7.5%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.9%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer1.9%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.3%

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 = 83
10th
$150k
25th
$176k
Median
$200k
75th
$224k
90th
$256k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA27.7%
  2. 2New York, NY12.6%
  3. 3Remote10.7%
  4. 4Boston, MA6.9%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA6.3%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA3.8%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.5%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.5%

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.