Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
sql
3,532 live US technical postings name sql 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 3,532 postings naming sql that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer33.9%
- 2Data Engineer20.5%
- 3Data Scientist19.5%
- 4Data Analyst9.9%
- 5Full-Stack Engineer4.8%
- 6DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.7%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer2.5%
- 8AI Engineer2.3%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote14.5%
- 2New York, NY12%
- 3San Francisco, CA11.9%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA5.9%
- 5Washington, DC4.7%
- 6Boston, MA2.4%
- 7Seattle, WA2%
- 8Chicago, IL1.9%
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.