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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

microservices

1,116 live US technical postings name microservices 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 1,116 postings naming microservices that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer68.1%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer8.9%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer8.4%
  4. 4Backend Engineer6.2%
  5. 5AI Engineer3%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.7%
  7. 7Security Engineer1.3%
  8. 8Data Engineer1.3%

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 = 675
10th
$131k
25th
$158k
Median
$188k
75th
$219k
90th
$250k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14.7%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA9.3%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA8.2%
  4. 4New York, NY7.8%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.9%
  6. 6Washington, DC4.7%
  7. 7Boston, MA1.9%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.9%

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.