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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

c

1,243 live US technical postings name c 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 1,243 postings naming c that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer85.7%
  2. 2Security Engineer4.8%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.7%
  4. 4Data Scientist2%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer1.4%
  6. 6Data Engineer1%

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 c is named
n = 798
10th
$119k
25th
$149k
Median
$179k
75th
$210k
90th
$238k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA13.5%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA7.2%
  3. 3Seattle, WA5.2%
  4. 4Los Angeles, CA4.2%
  5. 5Remote4.1%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.3%
  7. 7New York, NY2.2%
  8. 8San Diego, CA1.9%

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.