Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
metrics
224 live US technical postings name metrics in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 224 postings naming metrics that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer62.1%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer15.6%
- 3Data Scientist8.5%
- 4Backend Engineer4%
- 5Full-Stack Engineer3.6%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer1.8%
- 7Security Engineer1.8%
- 8Data Analyst1.3%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote18.3%
- 2San Francisco, CA17.4%
- 3New York, NY10.7%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA9.4%
- 5Seattle, WA6.7%
- 6Boston, MA3.1%
- 7Los Angeles, CA2.7%
- 8Austin, TX2.2%
How we counted
967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.