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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

infrastructure

345 live US technical postings name infrastructure 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 345 postings naming infrastructure that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer64.9%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer20.3%
  3. 3Backend Engineer3.8%
  4. 4AI Engineer3.5%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer2.9%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.4%
  7. 7Security Engineer1.4%
  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 infrastructure is named
n = 169
10th
$150k
25th
$182k
Median
$215k
75th
$245k
90th
$320k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA34.8%
  2. 2New York, NY13.3%
  3. 3Remote11%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA2.9%
  6. 6Boston, MA1.7%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA1.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.2%

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.