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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

causal inference

256 live US technical postings name causal inference 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 256 postings naming causal inference that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Scientist82%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer7.4%
  3. 3AI Engineer5.1%
  4. 4Data Analyst2.3%
  5. 5Software Engineer2.3%

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 causal inference is named
n = 181
10th
$148k
25th
$175k
Median
$208k
75th
$250k
90th
$293k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA26.6%
  2. 2Remote22.3%
  3. 3New York, NY13.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.6%
  5. 5Seattle, WA3.5%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.1%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.3%
  8. 8Denver, CO2%

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.