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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

backend development

331 live US technical postings name backend development in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 331 postings naming backend development that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer78.9%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer7.9%
  3. 3Backend Engineer5.4%
  4. 4AI Engineer3.3%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.2%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.2%

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 backend development is named
n = 214
10th
$163k
25th
$170k
Median
$180k
75th
$215k
90th
$254k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA23%
  2. 2New York, NY10.6%
  3. 3Remote10.6%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.6%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.7%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA2.7%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.7%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.5%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.