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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

data science

267 live US technical postings name data science 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 267 postings naming data science that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Scientist49.1%
  2. 2Software Engineer19.9%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer10.1%
  4. 4AI Engineer9.7%
  5. 5Data Analyst4.9%
  6. 6Data Engineer3.4%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.5%

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 data science is named
n = 127
10th
$133k
25th
$161k
Median
$208k
75th
$242k
90th
$293k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA14.6%
  2. 2Remote11.6%
  3. 3New York, NY11.2%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC6%
  6. 6Boston, MA4.9%
  7. 7Austin, TX3%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.2%

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.