Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

gpu

287 live US technical postings name gpu 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 287 postings naming gpu that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer55.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer25.4%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer10.8%
  4. 4AI Engineer3.8%
  5. 5Data Scientist1.7%
  6. 6Security Engineer1%

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 = 181
10th
$158k
25th
$193k
Median
$218k
75th
$250k
90th
$286k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA24.4%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA22%
  3. 3Remote12.9%
  4. 4New York, NY4.5%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.5%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA3.8%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.8%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.4%

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.