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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

performance optimization

443 live US technical postings name performance optimization 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 443 postings naming performance optimization that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer68.4%
  2. 2Frontend Engineer14.2%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.3%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer4.5%
  5. 5Backend Engineer2.3%
  6. 6Data Engineer1.8%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.4%

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 performance optimization is named
n = 271
10th
$150k
25th
$164k
Median
$198k
75th
$229k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA14.4%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA13.5%
  3. 3Remote13.3%
  4. 4New York, NY12.2%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.5%
  7. 7Boston, MA2%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2%

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.