Job market reports · Skill · September 2026
sre
202 live US technical postings name sre 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 202 postings naming sre that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer70.8%
- 2Software Engineer18.3%
- 3Backend Engineer2.5%
- 4Security Engineer2.5%
- 5AI Engineer2%
- 6Machine Learning Engineer2%
- 7Data Engineer1.5%
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.
- 1Remote17.3%
- 2San Francisco, CA14.9%
- 3New York, NY13.4%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA8.4%
- 5Boston, MA3.5%
- 6Los Angeles, CA2.5%
- 7Washington, DC2.5%
- 8Chicago, IL2%
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.