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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

java

1,323 live US technical postings name java in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 1,323 postings naming java that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer72.1%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer7.3%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.3%
  4. 4Data Engineer3.1%
  5. 5Backend Engineer2.9%
  6. 6Security Engineer2.6%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer2.5%
  8. 8Data Scientist1.6%

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 java is named
n = 279
10th
$124k
25th
$150k
Median
$183k
75th
$205k
90th
$238k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote11.3%
  2. 2New York, NY10.3%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA10%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.2%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.8%
  6. 6Washington, DC4%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.3%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.3%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.