Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

storage

172 live US technical postings name storage in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 172 postings naming storage that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer51.2%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer39.5%
  3. 3Backend Engineer2.3%
  4. 4AI Engineer1.7%
  5. 5Security Engineer1.7%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer1.2%
  7. 7Machine Learning 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.

Disclosed pay where storage is named
n = 95
10th
$153k
25th
$178k
Median
$199k
75th
$229k
90th
$264k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA21.5%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA16.3%
  3. 3Remote9.3%
  4. 4New York, NY6.4%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.1%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.9%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA1.7%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.2%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.