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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

systems engineering

308 live US technical postings name systems engineering 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 308 postings naming systems engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer89.3%
  2. 2Security Engineer5.2%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.9%
  4. 4Data Scientist1%

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.

Disclosed pay where systems engineering is named
n = 87
10th
$116k
25th
$147k
Median
$173k
75th
$200k
90th
$222k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA5.8%
  2. 2Washington, DC5.8%
  3. 3Los Angeles, CA4.9%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA2.3%
  5. 5San Diego, CA1.9%
  6. 6Boston, MA1.6%
  7. 7Denver, CO1.6%
  8. 8Remote1.6%

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.