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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

javascript

1,972 live US technical postings name javascript 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 1,972 postings naming javascript that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer66.2%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer13.2%
  3. 3Frontend Engineer6.6%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.9%
  5. 5Security Engineer3.4%
  6. 6AI Engineer2.3%
  7. 7Data Engineer1.6%
  8. 8Backend 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 javascript is named
n = 1,147
10th
$115k
25th
$138k
Median
$168k
75th
$200k
90th
$230k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote10.4%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA8.3%
  3. 3New York, NY7.2%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.5%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.9%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.6%
  8. 8Denver, CO2%

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.