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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

reliability

153 live US technical postings name reliability 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 153 postings naming reliability that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer66.7%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer13.7%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer5.9%
  4. 4Backend Engineer5.2%
  5. 5AI Engineer3.9%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer2%
  7. 7Data Engineer1.3%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.3%

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 reliability is named
n = 85
10th
$158k
25th
$184k
Median
$209k
75th
$253k
90th
$304k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA20.9%
  2. 2New York, NY18.3%
  3. 3Remote9.8%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9.8%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.9%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA2%
  7. 7Washington, DC2%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.3%

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.