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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

scalability

157 live US technical postings name scalability 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 157 postings naming scalability that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer75.8%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer8.3%
  3. 3Backend Engineer5.7%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer4.5%
  5. 5Data Engineer1.9%
  6. 6AI Engineer1.3%
  7. 7Machine Learning 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 scalability is named
n = 90
10th
$159k
25th
$180k
Median
$210k
75th
$233k
90th
$273k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote18.5%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA17.2%
  3. 3New York, NY12.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA10.8%
  5. 5Los Angeles, CA4.5%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.8%
  7. 7Washington, DC3.2%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.5%

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.