Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

windows

222 live US technical postings name windows in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 222 postings naming windows that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer51.8%
  2. 2Security Engineer25.7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer18%
  4. 4Data Scientist1.4%
  5. 5Full-Stack 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 windows is named
n = 36
10th
$113k
25th
$131k
Median
$192k
75th
$200k
90th
$217k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY6.3%
  2. 2Remote5.9%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA5.9%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA5%
  5. 5Seattle, WA3.6%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.2%
  7. 7San Diego, CA2.3%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.8%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.