Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
rds
260 live US technical postings name rds 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 260 postings naming rds that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer41.5%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer36.2%
- 3Full-Stack Engineer7.3%
- 4Data Engineer6.5%
- 5Backend Engineer4.2%
- 6Security Engineer1.9%
- 7Data 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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote15%
- 2San Francisco, CA10%
- 3Washington, DC7.7%
- 4Boston, MA6.5%
- 5New York, NY5.4%
- 6Silicon Valley, CA5%
- 7Atlanta, GA2.3%
- 8Chicago, IL2.3%
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.