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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

retrieval

164 live US technical postings name retrieval 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 164 postings naming retrieval that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer39%
  2. 2AI Engineer27.4%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer20.1%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.3%
  5. 5Data Scientist3.7%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.4%
  7. 7Data Engineer1.8%
  8. 8Full-Stack 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 retrieval is named
n = 89
10th
$170k
25th
$200k
Median
$231k
75th
$275k
90th
$311k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA32.9%
  2. 2New York, NY18.3%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA13.4%
  4. 4Remote11.6%
  5. 5Austin, TX2.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA1.8%
  7. 7Chicago, IL1.8%
  8. 8Washington, DC1.8%

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.