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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

software engineering

390 live US technical postings name software engineering in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 390 postings naming software engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer68.5%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer8.5%
  3. 3AI Engineer7.9%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.1%
  5. 5Security Engineer3.6%
  6. 6Data Scientist3.1%
  7. 7Data Engineer1.8%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer1%

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 = 55
10th
$127k
25th
$176k
Median
$203k
75th
$230k
90th
$339k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA21.3%
  2. 2Remote14.6%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA8.7%
  4. 4New York, NY7.9%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.6%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.6%
  7. 7Austin, TX1.8%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.8%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.