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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

performance optimization

497 live US technical postings name performance optimization 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 497 postings naming performance optimization that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer72%
  2. 2Frontend Engineer12.1%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.2%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer3.8%
  5. 5Backend Engineer2.4%
  6. 6Data Engineer1.8%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.4%

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 performance optimization is named
n = 300
10th
$151k
25th
$165k
Median
$197k
75th
$229k
90th
$265k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA14.1%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13.9%
  3. 3Remote12.5%
  4. 4New York, NY10.5%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.6%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.4%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.2%
  8. 8Boston, MA2%

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.