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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

vector databases

321 live US technical postings name vector databases 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 321 postings naming vector databases that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer36.8%
  2. 2AI Engineer29.6%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer10.3%
  4. 4Data Engineer7.8%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.2%
  6. 6Data Scientist4%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer3.1%

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 vector databases is named
n = 179
10th
$138k
25th
$161k
Median
$193k
75th
$225k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA13.1%
  2. 2Remote11.8%
  3. 3New York, NY9.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.8%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.5%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.2%

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.