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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

version control

313 live US technical postings name version control 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 313 postings naming version control that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer57.8%
  2. 2Data Engineer9.9%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer9.6%
  4. 4Data Scientist7%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.5%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer3.5%
  7. 7AI Engineer2.9%
  8. 8Frontend Engineer1.9%

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 version control is named
n = 171
10th
$118k
25th
$140k
Median
$160k
75th
$185k
90th
$215k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote7.3%
  2. 2New York, NY6.4%
  3. 3Washington, DC6.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.8%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.4%
  6. 6San Francisco, CA5.1%
  7. 7Denver, CO4.5%
  8. 8Boston, MA3.8%

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.