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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

github copilot

223 live US technical postings name github copilot 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 223 postings naming github copilot that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer59.6%
  2. 2Data Engineer7.6%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.7%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer6.7%
  5. 5Data Scientist3.6%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer3.1%
  7. 7AI Engineer2.7%
  8. 8Backend Engineer2.7%

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 copilot is named
n = 124
10th
$118k
25th
$138k
Median
$170k
75th
$210k
90th
$239k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote13.9%
  2. 2New York, NY6.7%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA6.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.5%
  6. 6Chicago, IL3.6%
  7. 7Washington, DC3.6%
  8. 8Boston, MA3.1%

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.