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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

cloud infrastructure

334 live US technical postings name cloud infrastructure in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 334 postings naming cloud infrastructure that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer58.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer18.6%
  3. 3Security Engineer4.8%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer4.2%
  5. 5Data Engineer3.9%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer3.6%
  7. 7AI Engineer3%
  8. 8Backend Engineer2.4%

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 = 61
10th
$115k
25th
$150k
Median
$203k
75th
$240k
90th
$268k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA22.2%
  2. 2Remote16.2%
  3. 3New York, NY10.5%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.4%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.5%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.4%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.1%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.