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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

serverless

158 live US technical postings name serverless 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 158 postings naming serverless that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer50%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer24.1%
  3. 3Full-Stack Engineer12%
  4. 4Backend Engineer5.7%
  5. 5AI Engineer3.2%
  6. 6Data Engineer1.9%
  7. 7Security Engineer1.9%

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 serverless is named
n = 92
10th
$133k
25th
$161k
Median
$190k
75th
$220k
90th
$250k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote20.9%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA15.8%
  3. 3New York, NY8.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.1%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.8%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.5%
  7. 7Seattle, WA1.9%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.3%

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.