Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
ci/cd
3,681 live US technical postings name ci/cd 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 3,681 postings naming ci/cd that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer47.8%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer22.4%
- 3Data Engineer6.8%
- 4Security Engineer6.2%
- 5Full-Stack Engineer5.4%
- 6AI Engineer3.2%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer2.7%
- 8Backend Engineer2.2%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote13.9%
- 2San Francisco, CA10.4%
- 3New York, NY8.3%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA7.4%
- 5Washington, DC4.5%
- 6Boston, MA3.4%
- 7Seattle, WA3%
- 8Denver, CO2.2%
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.