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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

microservices

1,058 live US technical postings name microservices 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 1,058 postings naming microservices that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer66.8%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer8.9%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer8.6%
  4. 4Backend Engineer6.8%
  5. 5AI Engineer3.1%
  6. 6Data Engineer1.4%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer1.4%
  8. 8Security 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 microservices is named
n = 643
10th
$135k
25th
$161k
Median
$188k
75th
$216k
90th
$245k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14.7%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA9.6%
  3. 3New York, NY8.8%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA8.5%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.1%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.6%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.5%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.8%

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.