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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

systems engineering

346 live US technical postings name systems engineering 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 346 postings naming systems engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer93.4%
  2. 2Security Engineer3.5%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2%

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 systems engineering is named
n = 43
10th
$111k
25th
$127k
Median
$154k
75th
$185k
90th
$200k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Washington, DC4.6%
  2. 2Remote4.3%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA4.3%
  4. 4Los Angeles, CA4%
  5. 5San Francisco, CA3.8%
  6. 6Denver, CO2%
  7. 7New York, NY1.7%
  8. 8Detroit, MI1.4%

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.