Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
slo
229 live US technical postings name slo 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 229 postings naming slo that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer63.3%
- 2Software Engineer31.9%
- 3Backend Engineer3.1%
- 4Data 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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote25.8%
- 2San Francisco, CA16.2%
- 3Silicon Valley, CA12.7%
- 4New York, NY11.4%
- 5Boston, MA4.4%
- 6Seattle, WA4.4%
- 7Los Angeles, CA2.6%
- 8Chicago, IL2.2%
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.