Sign in

Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

debugging

295 live US technical postings name debugging 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 295 postings naming debugging that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer79%
  2. 2Frontend Engineer5.4%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.7%
  4. 4AI Engineer3.7%
  5. 5Backend Engineer3.4%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.7%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer1.4%

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 debugging is named
n = 58
10th
$145k
25th
$156k
Median
$190k
75th
$220k
90th
$242k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA13.2%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA12.2%
  3. 3Remote7.8%
  4. 4New York, NY7.1%
  5. 5Austin, TX4.1%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.7%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.1%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2.7%

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.