Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

ci/cd

3,831 live US technical postings name ci/cd 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 3,831 postings naming ci/cd that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer49.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer21.6%
  3. 3Data Engineer6.8%
  4. 4Security Engineer5.7%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer5.4%
  6. 6AI Engineer3%
  7. 7Machine Learning Engineer2.6%
  8. 8Backend 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.

Disclosed pay where ci/cd is named
n = 2,302
10th
$128k
25th
$152k
Median
$182k
75th
$210k
90th
$242k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote12.8%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA9.9%
  3. 3New York, NY7.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.3%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.5%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.5%
  7. 7Boston, MA3.4%
  8. 8Denver, CO2%

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.