Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

gpu

331 live US technical postings name gpu 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 331 postings naming gpu that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer58.6%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer21.5%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer9.1%
  4. 4AI Engineer5.1%
  5. 5Data Scientist2.1%
  6. 6Data Engineer1.5%

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 gpu is named
n = 210
10th
$158k
25th
$183k
Median
$215k
75th
$254k
90th
$310k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA24.2%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA23.9%
  3. 3Remote9.7%
  4. 4Seattle, WA5.7%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.2%
  6. 6New York, NY3.9%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA3.3%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.7%

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.