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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

http

170 live US technical postings name http 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 170 postings naming http that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer63.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer18.2%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer7.1%
  4. 4Security Engineer3.5%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.4%
  6. 6Backend Engineer1.8%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer1.8%
  8. 8Data Scientist1.2%

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 http is named
n = 116
10th
$126k
25th
$153k
Median
$188k
75th
$213k
90th
$243k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote17.6%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA11.2%
  3. 3New York, NY7.6%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA5.9%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.3%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.5%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.9%
  8. 8Denver, CO2.4%

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.