Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

storage

155 live US technical postings name storage 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 155 postings naming storage that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer49.7%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer41.9%
  3. 3AI Engineer3.2%
  4. 4Backend Engineer2.6%
  5. 5Security Engineer1.3%

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 storage is named
n = 81
10th
$140k
25th
$180k
Median
$200k
75th
$229k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA20.6%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA17.4%
  3. 3Remote11%
  4. 4New York, NY7.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA2.6%
  6. 6San Diego, CA1.9%
  7. 7Houston, TX1.3%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA1.3%

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.