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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

statistics

547 live US technical postings name statistics 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 547 postings naming statistics that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Scientist59.4%
  2. 2Software Engineer14.6%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer9.7%
  4. 4Data Analyst7.5%
  5. 5AI Engineer4.8%
  6. 6Data Engineer3.1%

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 statistics is named
n = 323
10th
$125k
25th
$155k
Median
$190k
75th
$231k
90th
$274k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14.4%
  2. 2New York, NY12.4%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA12.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.8%
  6. 6Austin, TX3.3%
  7. 7Boston, MA3.1%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.7%

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.