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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

cloud infrastructure

415 live US technical postings name cloud infrastructure 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 415 postings naming cloud infrastructure that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer54.2%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer18.6%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer7.2%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer4.3%
  5. 5Backend Engineer3.6%
  6. 6Data Engineer3.6%
  7. 7AI Engineer3.4%
  8. 8Security Engineer3.4%

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 cloud infrastructure is named
n = 216
10th
$135k
25th
$171k
Median
$208k
75th
$253k
90th
$304k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA22.9%
  2. 2Remote11.3%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA11.1%
  4. 4New York, NY10.4%
  5. 5Seattle, WA3.4%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.4%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.2%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.9%

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.