Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
sqs
233 live US technical postings name sqs 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 233 postings naming sqs that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer55.8%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer14.6%
- 3Full-Stack Engineer9.9%
- 4Backend Engineer8.2%
- 5Data Engineer7.3%
- 6AI Engineer2.1%
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.
- 1Remote18.9%
- 2San Francisco, CA16.7%
- 3New York, NY10.7%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA8.6%
- 5Boston, MA5.6%
- 6Washington, DC3.9%
- 7Atlanta, GA2.1%
- 8Los Angeles, CA1.7%
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.