Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
reliability
171 live US technical postings name reliability 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 171 postings naming reliability that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer71.9%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer10.5%
- 3AI Engineer4.7%
- 4Full-Stack Engineer4.7%
- 5Backend Engineer4.1%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer1.8%
- 7Data Engineer1.2%
- 8Frontend Engineer1.2%
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.
- 1San Francisco, CA24.6%
- 2New York, NY16.4%
- 3Silicon Valley, CA10.5%
- 4Remote9.9%
- 5Seattle, WA8.2%
- 6Los Angeles, CA2.3%
- 7Boston, MA1.8%
- 8Austin, TX1.2%
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.