Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
streaming
200 live US technical postings name streaming 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 200 postings naming streaming that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer52.5%
- 2Data Engineer21.5%
- 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.5%
- 4Full-Stack Engineer4.5%
- 5Backend Engineer4%
- 6AI Engineer3.5%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer3%
- 8Data Scientist2.5%
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.
- 1San Francisco, CA21.5%
- 2New York, NY17%
- 3Remote14%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA11%
- 5Austin, TX5%
- 6Seattle, WA2%
- 7Boston, MA1%
- 8Chicago, IL1%
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.