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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

software engineering

312 live US technical postings name software engineering 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 312 postings naming software engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer63.1%
  2. 2Data Scientist8.3%
  3. 3AI Engineer7.1%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer7.1%
  5. 5Security Engineer5.8%
  6. 6Data Engineer2.6%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer2.6%
  8. 8DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.9%

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 software engineering is named
n = 127
10th
$118k
25th
$163k
Median
$199k
75th
$235k
90th
$308k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA16%
  2. 2Remote9.9%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA7.1%
  4. 4New York, NY5.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.8%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA3.2%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.2%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.6%

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.