Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

temporal

247 live US technical postings name temporal 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 247 postings naming temporal that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer71.7%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.7%
  3. 3Backend Engineer5.7%
  4. 4AI Engineer4%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer4%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer2.4%
  7. 7Data Engineer1.6%

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 temporal is named
n = 154
10th
$162k
25th
$178k
Median
$208k
75th
$238k
90th
$270k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA32.8%
  2. 2New York, NY18.2%
  3. 3Remote15.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.1%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.7%
  6. 6Boston, MA4%
  7. 7Austin, TX2%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA1.6%

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.