Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
ecs
288 live US technical postings name ecs 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 288 postings naming ecs that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer40.6%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer29.9%
- 3Full-Stack Engineer7.6%
- 4Data Engineer6.6%
- 5Security Engineer5.9%
- 6Backend Engineer4.2%
- 7AI Engineer2.1%
- 8Machine Learning Engineer2.1%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote15.6%
- 2San Francisco, CA14.2%
- 3New York, NY13.2%
- 4Washington, DC4.5%
- 5Boston, MA4.2%
- 6Silicon Valley, CA3.8%
- 7Seattle, WA2.4%
- 8Chicago, IL2.1%
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.