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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

java

3,000 live US technical postings name java 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 3,000 postings naming java that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer69.1%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer7.2%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.1%
  4. 4Data Engineer3.6%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer3.1%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.7%
  7. 7Security Engineer2.4%
  8. 8AI Engineer2.1%

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 java is named
n = 1,929
10th
$126k
25th
$155k
Median
$188k
75th
$218k
90th
$254k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA10.9%
  2. 2Remote9.7%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA8.9%
  4. 4New York, NY8.5%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.6%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.3%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2%

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.