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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

backend engineering

174 live US technical postings name backend engineering in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 174 postings naming backend engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer64.9%
  2. 2Backend Engineer14.9%
  3. 3AI Engineer7.5%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.7%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer4.6%
  6. 6Security Engineer1.1%

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.

Disclosed pay where backend engineering is named

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 26 of these postings state one. We would rather show nothing than a median built on a handful of rows.

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA22.4%
  2. 2New York, NY18.4%
  3. 3Remote16.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9.8%
  5. 5Austin, TX3.4%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.4%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.9%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2.3%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.