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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

cloud-native

206 live US technical postings name cloud-native 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 206 postings naming cloud-native that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer63.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer10.2%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer6.8%
  4. 4Security Engineer5.8%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer3.9%
  6. 6AI Engineer3.4%
  7. 7Data Engineer3.4%
  8. 8Data Scientist1.9%

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-native is named
n = 127
10th
$145k
25th
$173k
Median
$197k
75th
$235k
90th
$276k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA15.5%
  2. 2Remote14.1%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA11.7%
  4. 4New York, NY5.3%
  5. 5Boston, MA4.4%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.9%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.9%

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.