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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

monitoring

1,058 live US technical postings name monitoring 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 1,058 postings naming monitoring that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer40.8%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer33.4%
  3. 3Data Engineer5%
  4. 4AI Engineer4.4%
  5. 5Machine Learning Engineer4.1%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer3.7%
  7. 7Security Engineer3%
  8. 8Backend Engineer2.8%

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 monitoring is named
n = 605
10th
$133k
25th
$160k
Median
$193k
75th
$222k
90th
$263k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA14.6%
  2. 2Remote13.7%
  3. 3New York, NY10.7%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA6.1%
  6. 6Washington, DC4.1%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.7%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.7%

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.