Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
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3,255 live US technical postings name go 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 3,255 postings naming go that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer62.7%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer15.4%
- 3Security Engineer8%
- 4Full-Stack Engineer4.8%
- 5Backend Engineer3.5%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer1.9%
- 7AI Engineer1.7%
- 8Data Engineer1.2%
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.
- 1Remote16.6%
- 2San Francisco, CA15.8%
- 3Silicon Valley, CA12.9%
- 4New York, NY9.1%
- 5Seattle, WA5.9%
- 6Boston, MA2.5%
- 7Washington, DC2%
- 8Austin, TX1.8%
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.