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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

machine learning

1,392 live US technical postings name machine learning in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 1,392 postings naming machine learning that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Scientist31.6%
  2. 2Software Engineer27.7%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer22.9%
  4. 4AI Engineer9.3%
  5. 5Data Engineer3.4%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.9%

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 machine learning is named
n = 217
10th
$135k
25th
$168k
Median
$201k
75th
$248k
90th
$295k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA19.1%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA14.6%
  3. 3Remote13.8%
  4. 4New York, NY11.3%
  5. 5Washington, DC2.4%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.4%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.3%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.