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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

rest apis

1,749 live US technical postings name rest apis 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 1,749 postings naming rest apis that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer58%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer10.3%
  3. 3AI Engineer6.7%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.6%
  5. 5Data Engineer4.6%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer4.5%
  7. 7Backend Engineer3.9%
  8. 8Security Engineer2.6%

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 apis is named
n = 877
10th
$120k
25th
$145k
Median
$175k
75th
$206k
90th
$239k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA14.4%
  2. 2Remote13.6%
  3. 3New York, NY8.3%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.9%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.7%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.8%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.3%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.1%

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.