Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

helm

515 live US technical postings name helm 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 515 postings naming helm that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer48.2%
  2. 2Software Engineer41.6%
  3. 3AI Engineer1.9%
  4. 4Backend Engineer1.7%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer1.7%
  6. 6Data Engineer1.4%
  7. 7Security Engineer1.4%
  8. 8Machine Learning 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.

Disclosed pay where helm is named
n = 338
10th
$137k
25th
$157k
Median
$180k
75th
$207k
90th
$238k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote16.9%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA7.8%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA7.8%
  4. 4New York, NY6.8%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.9%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.3%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.1%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.9%

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.