Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
sre
215 live US technical postings name sre 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 215 postings naming sre that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer67.4%
- 2Software Engineer22.3%
- 3Backend Engineer2.8%
- 4AI Engineer2.3%
- 5Security Engineer1.9%
- 6Data Engineer1.4%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer1.4%
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.
- 1Remote19.1%
- 2New York, NY11.6%
- 3San Francisco, CA11.6%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA9.3%
- 5Seattle, WA3.3%
- 6Boston, MA2.8%
- 7Austin, TX2.3%
- 8Washington, DC2.3%
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.