Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

deployment

157 live US technical postings name deployment 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 157 postings naming deployment that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer57.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer14.6%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer8.3%
  4. 4AI Engineer7%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer7%
  6. 6Backend Engineer1.9%
  7. 7Data Scientist1.9%
  8. 8Data Engineer1.3%

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 deployment is named
n = 71
10th
$142k
25th
$160k
Median
$205k
75th
$227k
90th
$270k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA12.7%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.1%
  3. 3Remote7.6%
  4. 4Seattle, WA7.6%
  5. 5New York, NY6.4%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.8%
  7. 7Boston, MA1.9%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA1.9%

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.