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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

distributed systems

1,378 live US technical postings name distributed systems 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 1,378 postings naming distributed systems that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer78%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.3%
  3. 3Backend Engineer4.6%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer2.9%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer2.2%
  6. 6AI Engineer2%
  7. 7Data Engineer1.6%

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 distributed systems is named
n = 226
10th
$162k
25th
$188k
Median
$211k
75th
$255k
90th
$302k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA21.6%
  2. 2Remote16.9%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA15.5%
  4. 4New York, NY11%
  5. 5Seattle, WA6.9%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.8%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA1.7%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.5%

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.