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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

rest apis

1,848 live US technical postings name rest apis 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 1,848 postings naming rest apis that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer58.3%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer10.5%
  3. 3AI Engineer6.3%
  4. 4Data Engineer5.2%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.7%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer4.5%
  7. 7Backend Engineer3.5%
  8. 8Security Engineer2.3%

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 rest apis is named
n = 946
10th
$120k
25th
$145k
Median
$175k
75th
$205k
90th
$238k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA13.5%
  2. 2Remote12.9%
  3. 3New York, NY8.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.1%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.8%
  6. 6Boston, MA2.7%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.5%
  8. 8Austin, TX2%

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.