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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

ecs

280 live US technical postings name ecs 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 280 postings naming ecs that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer40%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer33.9%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer6.8%
  4. 4Data Engineer5.7%
  5. 5Security Engineer5.7%
  6. 6Backend Engineer3.2%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer2.1%
  8. 8AI 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 ecs is named
n = 147
10th
$132k
25th
$153k
Median
$180k
75th
$200k
90th
$223k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote15.4%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13.6%
  3. 3New York, NY12.5%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.9%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.6%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.5%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.1%

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.