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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

rds

299 live US technical postings name rds in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 299 postings naming rds that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer40.8%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer35.8%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer8%
  4. 4Data Engineer7.4%
  5. 5Backend Engineer4%
  6. 6Security Engineer2.3%
  7. 7Data Scientist1%

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 rds is named
n = 167
10th
$130k
25th
$150k
Median
$170k
75th
$200k
90th
$225k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote15.1%
  2. 2Washington, DC9.7%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA8.7%
  4. 4Boston, MA5.7%
  5. 5New York, NY5%
  6. 6Silicon Valley, CA5%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.3%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.