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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

vector databases

312 live US technical postings name vector databases 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 312 postings naming vector databases that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer36.2%
  2. 2AI Engineer28.8%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer9.9%
  4. 4Data Engineer7.1%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.8%
  6. 6Data Scientist5.4%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer4.2%
  8. 8Security 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 vector databases is named
n = 159
10th
$143k
25th
$163k
Median
$193k
75th
$225k
90th
$284k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA15.1%
  2. 2New York, NY10.6%
  3. 3Remote10.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9.3%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.8%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.6%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.6%
  8. 8Denver, CO2.2%

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.