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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

rest

662 live US technical postings name rest 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 662 postings naming rest that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer66.3%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer11.3%
  3. 3Backend Engineer6.6%
  4. 4Frontend Engineer4.2%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.1%
  6. 6Data Engineer2.6%
  7. 7AI Engineer1.7%
  8. 8Security Engineer1.7%

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 rest is named
n = 435
10th
$132k
25th
$160k
Median
$186k
75th
$210k
90th
$237k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote16.3%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA9.2%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA8.8%
  4. 4New York, NY7.9%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.8%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.6%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.9%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.8%

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.