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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

git

1,676 live US technical postings name git 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 1,676 postings naming git that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer56.6%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer11%
  3. 3Data Engineer8.9%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer6.2%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer4.8%
  6. 6Data Scientist4%
  7. 7AI Engineer2.1%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer2%

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 git is named
n = 977
10th
$113k
25th
$133k
Median
$160k
75th
$190k
90th
$210k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote9%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA5.7%
  3. 3Washington, DC5.1%
  4. 4New York, NY4.9%
  5. 5San Francisco, CA4.1%
  6. 6Denver, CO2.9%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.3%

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.