Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
spark
1,001 live US technical postings name spark 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 1,001 postings naming spark that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Data Engineer30.6%
- 2Software Engineer30.1%
- 3Data Scientist13.1%
- 4Machine Learning Engineer10%
- 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.5%
- 6AI Engineer2.8%
- 7Data Analyst2.7%
- 8Backend Engineer1.8%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote14.9%
- 2San Francisco, CA12.1%
- 3New York, NY10.5%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA9.6%
- 5Seattle, WA4.7%
- 6Washington, DC4.6%
- 7Chicago, IL2.1%
- 8Boston, MA1.8%
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.