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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

machine learning

2,228 live US technical postings name machine learning 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 2,228 postings naming machine learning that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer31%
  2. 2Data Scientist30.5%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer18.8%
  4. 4AI Engineer10.1%
  5. 5Data Engineer3.6%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.7%
  7. 7Data Analyst1.3%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer1.1%

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 machine learning is named
n = 1,254
10th
$136k
25th
$168k
Median
$201k
75th
$238k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA17.6%
  2. 2Remote13%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA12.6%
  4. 4New York, NY10.3%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.3%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.6%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.2%

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.