Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
spark
1,016 live US technical postings name spark 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 1,016 postings naming spark that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Data Engineer31.5%
- 2Software Engineer29.4%
- 3Data Scientist12.5%
- 4Machine Learning Engineer10%
- 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.9%
- 6AI Engineer4.3%
- 7Data Analyst2.7%
- 8Backend 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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote15.2%
- 2San Francisco, CA12.6%
- 3New York, NY11.2%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA10.5%
- 5Washington, DC4.4%
- 6Seattle, WA4%
- 7Boston, MA1.7%
- 8Chicago, IL1.6%
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.