Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
etl
839 live US technical postings name etl 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 839 postings naming etl that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Data Engineer51.1%
- 2Software Engineer20.1%
- 3Data Scientist8.6%
- 4Data Analyst7.6%
- 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.5%
- 6AI Engineer2.5%
- 7Backend Engineer2%
- 8Full-Stack Engineer2%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote13.1%
- 2San Francisco, CA12.8%
- 3New York, NY9.5%
- 4Washington, DC4.8%
- 5Silicon Valley, CA3.9%
- 6Chicago, IL2.1%
- 7Austin, TX2%
- 8Seattle, WA1.8%
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.