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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

cloud-native

195 live US technical postings name cloud-native 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 195 postings naming cloud-native that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer57.9%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer12.3%
  3. 3Security Engineer7.7%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer5.1%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer5.1%
  6. 6Data Engineer4.6%
  7. 7AI Engineer3.1%
  8. 8Backend Engineer1.5%

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 = 128
10th
$159k
25th
$175k
Median
$197k
75th
$225k
90th
$271k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote17.4%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA15.9%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA9.2%
  4. 4Boston, MA6.7%
  5. 5New York, NY6.7%
  6. 6Seattle, WA4.6%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.1%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.5%

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.