Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
sqs
216 live US technical postings name sqs 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 216 postings naming sqs that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer56.5%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer12.5%
- 3Full-Stack Engineer12%
- 4Data Engineer8.3%
- 5Backend Engineer6.9%
- 6AI 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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Remote17.6%
- 2San Francisco, CA15.7%
- 3New York, NY9.3%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA8.3%
- 5Boston, MA4.6%
- 6Atlanta, GA3.2%
- 7Washington, DC3.2%
- 8Austin, TX2.8%
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.