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Which roles ask for GitHub Copilot at tech companies · 41 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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41 roles counted that list GitHub Copilot, one per company, title and level; 82 postings in the window.

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In short

GitHub Copilot: listed in 41 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 29 and preferred in 12. The largest group is software engineer roles: 25 of 41.

Required
29 of 41
Of the roles that list GitHub Copilot
Preferred
12 of 41
Of the roles that list GitHub Copilot
Largest group
25 of 41
Software engineer

Roles that ask for GitHub Copilot

Roles listing GitHub Copilot, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Software engineer2525 of 719
AI engineer33 of 70
Data engineer33 of 99
DevOps engineer33 of 58
Forward deployed engineer22 of 63
Data analyst11 of 47
Data scientist11 of 112
Platform engineer11 of 57
Security engineer11 of 126
Software architect11 of 32

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 41 GitHub Copilot roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Python
22 of 41
CI/CD
21 of 41
AWS
19 of 41
AI Coding Tools
14 of 41
Cursor
14 of 41
Claude Code
13 of 41
Claude
12 of 41
Kubernetes
12 of 41
Go
11 of 41
TypeScript
11 of 41
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
AI Coding Tools
10 of 41
Cursor
9 of 41
Claude Code
8 of 41
Azure
4 of 41
CI/CD
4 of 41
LLMs
4 of 41
Observability
4 of 41
AI Agents
3 of 41
AI Tools
3 of 41
Cybersecurity
3 of 41

Experience

Of the 19 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
19 of 19
2+ years
18 of 19
3+ years
17 of 19
5+ years
12 of 19
8+ years
5 of 19
10+ years
2 of 19

Degree

Of the 24 roles we could read for it

Required
2 of 24
Required, or experience instead
5 of 24
Preferred
0 of 24
Not mentioned
17 of 24

Pay and remote work

Of the 41 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
15 of 41
Remote roles
25 of 41

How we count: 41 roles from 32 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology