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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

monitoring

981 live US technical postings name monitoring 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 981 postings naming monitoring that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer39%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer34.3%
  3. 3AI Engineer4.9%
  4. 4Data Engineer4.9%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer4.4%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer3.7%
  7. 7Backend Engineer3.3%
  8. 8Security Engineer3%

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 monitoring is named
n = 516
10th
$135k
25th
$163k
Median
$193k
75th
$222k
90th
$268k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA14.4%
  2. 2Remote14.3%
  3. 3New York, NY10.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.8%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.8%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.1%
  7. 7Washington, DC3.1%
  8. 8Austin, TX2%

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.