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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

microservices

519 live US technical postings name microservices 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 519 postings naming microservices that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer68%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer9.2%
  3. 3Backend Engineer7.1%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer6.4%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.5%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.9%
  7. 7Security Engineer1.7%
  8. 8Data 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.

Disclosed pay where microservices is named
n = 78
10th
$120k
25th
$144k
Median
$175k
75th
$202k
90th
$240k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote18.1%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA10%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA9.2%
  4. 4New York, NY8.9%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.4%
  6. 6Washington, DC2.9%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.7%
  8. 8Dallas, TX1.9%

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.