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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

git

1,791 live US technical postings name git 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 1,791 postings naming git that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer56.7%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer11.8%
  3. 3Data Engineer8.5%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer5.9%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer4.6%
  6. 6Data Scientist3.6%
  7. 7AI Engineer2.5%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.9%

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 git is named
n = 1,061
10th
$110k
25th
$133k
Median
$160k
75th
$191k
90th
$210k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote8%
  2. 2Washington, DC5.7%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA5.5%
  4. 4New York, NY5.1%
  5. 5San Francisco, CA3.5%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.6%
  7. 7Denver, CO2.3%
  8. 8Austin, TX2%

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.