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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

mcp

151 live US technical postings name mcp 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 151 postings naming mcp that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer50.3%
  2. 2AI Engineer18.5%
  3. 3Security Engineer8.6%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.9%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer4.6%
  6. 6Data Engineer3.3%
  7. 7Backend Engineer2%
  8. 8Data Scientist2%

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 mcp is named

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 17 of these postings state one. We would rather show nothing than a median built on a handful of rows.

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA29.8%
  2. 2Remote17.9%
  3. 3New York, NY11.9%
  4. 4Boston, MA4.6%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA4.6%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.3%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.6%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.3%

How we counted

549,667 live US postings read directly from 72,763 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.