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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

backend systems

160 live US technical postings name backend systems 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 160 postings naming backend systems that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer77.5%
  2. 2AI Engineer10%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.8%
  4. 4Backend Engineer2.5%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer1.9%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.9%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer1.3%

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.

Disclosed pay where backend systems is named
n = 90
10th
$163k
25th
$187k
Median
$216k
75th
$252k
90th
$308k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA31.3%
  2. 2New York, NY23.8%
  3. 3Remote13.8%
  4. 4Seattle, WA5%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA5%
  6. 6Boston, MA1.9%
  7. 7Chicago, IL1.3%

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.