Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
routing
209 live US technical postings name routing 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 209 postings naming routing that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer43.1%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer34.9%
- 3Security Engineer12.4%
- 4AI Engineer3.8%
- 5Full-Stack Engineer1.9%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer1.4%
- 7Data Scientist1%
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, CA13.9%
- 2Silicon Valley, CA11%
- 3Remote9.6%
- 4New York, NY6.7%
- 5Los Angeles, CA4.8%
- 6Seattle, WA3.8%
- 7Washington, DC3.8%
- 8Boston, MA1.9%
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.