Job market reports · Skill · August 2026
ci/cd
1,841 live US technical postings name ci/cd 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 1,841 postings naming ci/cd that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer45.7%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer24.8%
- 3Security Engineer7%
- 4Data Engineer6.6%
- 5Full-Stack Engineer5.7%
- 6AI Engineer2.9%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer2.4%
- 8Frontend Engineer2%
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.
- 1Remote16.8%
- 2San Francisco, CA12.1%
- 3New York, NY9.6%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA6.7%
- 5Washington, DC4.3%
- 6Austin, TX2.8%
- 7Seattle, WA2.8%
- 8Boston, MA2.4%
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.