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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

rest

618 live US technical postings name rest 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 618 postings naming rest that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer66.7%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer11.7%
  3. 3Backend Engineer5.7%
  4. 4Frontend Engineer5.3%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.7%
  6. 6Data Engineer2.6%
  7. 7AI Engineer1.9%
  8. 8Security 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 rest is named
n = 398
10th
$130k
25th
$160k
Median
$185k
75th
$209k
90th
$235k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote18%
  2. 2New York, NY9.2%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA7.6%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA7.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.5%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.4%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.6%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.1%

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.