Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

helm

482 live US technical postings name helm 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 482 postings naming helm that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer50.8%
  2. 2Software Engineer40.2%
  3. 3Backend Engineer2.3%
  4. 4AI Engineer1.5%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer1.5%
  6. 6Data Engineer1.2%
  7. 7Security Engineer1.2%

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 helm is named
n = 322
10th
$133k
25th
$159k
Median
$183k
75th
$207k
90th
$232k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote19.7%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA10.6%
  3. 3New York, NY6.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.2%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.1%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.7%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.1%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.9%

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.