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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

routing

172 live US technical postings name routing 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 172 postings naming routing that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer45.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer32.6%
  3. 3Security Engineer12.2%
  4. 4AI Engineer4.1%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer1.7%
  6. 6Data Scientist1.2%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer1.2%
  8. 8Machine Learning 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.

Disclosed pay where routing is named
n = 89
10th
$143k
25th
$155k
Median
$190k
75th
$223k
90th
$240k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA14.5%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.2%
  3. 3Remote8.7%
  4. 4New York, NY5.2%
  5. 5Los Angeles, CA3.5%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.9%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.3%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.3%

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.