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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

java

3,189 live US technical postings name java 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 3,189 postings naming java that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer70.5%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6%
  4. 4Data Engineer3.4%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer3%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.8%
  7. 7Security Engineer2.3%
  8. 8AI 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.

Disclosed pay where java is named
n = 2,074
10th
$123k
25th
$154k
Median
$188k
75th
$219k
90th
$251k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA10.6%
  2. 2Remote9.8%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA8.6%
  4. 4New York, NY7.4%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.3%
  6. 6Washington, DC4.2%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.1%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA1.7%

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.