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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

machine learning

2,302 live US technical postings name machine learning 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 2,302 postings naming machine learning that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer32.4%
  2. 2Data Scientist28.2%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer19.1%
  4. 4AI Engineer9.8%
  5. 5Data Engineer3.6%
  6. 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.9%
  7. 7Data Analyst1.7%
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer1.3%

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 machine learning is named
n = 1,386
10th
$133k
25th
$161k
Median
$200k
75th
$238k
90th
$276k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA18.6%
  2. 2Remote12.8%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA12.6%
  4. 4New York, NY9.6%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.6%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.5%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.9%

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.