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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

profiling

168 live US technical postings name profiling 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 168 postings naming profiling that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer81.5%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer6.5%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer4.2%
  4. 4Backend Engineer1.8%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.8%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer1.8%
  7. 7AI Engineer1.2%

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 profiling is named
n = 125
10th
$135k
25th
$164k
Median
$194k
75th
$222k
90th
$271k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA19%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA19%
  3. 3New York, NY8.3%
  4. 4Remote6.5%
  5. 5Boston, MA5.4%
  6. 6Seattle, WA4.8%
  7. 7San Diego, CA3%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.4%

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.