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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

rtos

222 live US technical postings name rtos 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 222 postings naming rtos that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer95.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.3%
  3. 3Security Engineer1.4%

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 rtos is named
n = 154
10th
$127k
25th
$145k
Median
$178k
75th
$210k
90th
$222k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA14.9%
  2. 2Los Angeles, CA10.8%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA5.4%
  4. 4Boston, MA3.6%
  5. 5San Diego, CA3.2%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.7%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.3%
  8. 8Remote1.8%

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.