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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

github

194 live US technical postings name github 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 194 postings naming github that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer49.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer16.5%
  3. 3Data Engineer7.7%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer5.7%
  5. 5Data Scientist5.2%
  6. 6Security Engineer4.1%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer3.1%
  8. 8AI Engineer2.6%

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 github is named
n = 35
10th
$120k
25th
$133k
Median
$160k
75th
$193k
90th
$217k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote18%
  2. 2New York, NY10.8%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA7.2%
  4. 4Denver, CO3.6%
  5. 5Austin, TX2.6%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.6%
  7. 7Silicon Valley, CA2.6%
  8. 8Washington, DC2.1%

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.