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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

containers

294 live US technical postings name containers 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 294 postings naming containers that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer44.2%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer29.9%
  3. 3Security Engineer9.9%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer4.1%
  5. 5Backend Engineer3.4%
  6. 6AI Engineer3.1%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer3.1%
  8. 8Data Scientist1.7%

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 containers is named
n = 168
10th
$138k
25th
$160k
Median
$183k
75th
$216k
90th
$261k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote22.1%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA15.3%
  3. 3New York, NY8.8%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.2%
  5. 5Austin, TX4.1%
  6. 6Washington, DC4.1%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.4%
  8. 8Atlanta, GA1.7%

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.