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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

version control

355 live US technical postings name version control 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 355 postings naming version control that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer60.6%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer10.1%
  3. 3Data Engineer8.7%
  4. 4Data Scientist7.6%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.8%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer3.1%
  7. 7Security Engineer1.7%
  8. 8AI Engineer1.4%

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 = 209
10th
$125k
25th
$140k
Median
$160k
75th
$189k
90th
$218k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote6.8%
  2. 2Washington, DC6.5%
  3. 3New York, NY6.2%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA5.9%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA5.6%
  6. 6Seattle, WA5.4%
  7. 7Denver, CO3.9%
  8. 8Boston, MA2%

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.