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+5.1%
Software Engineering
165Live openings
$170,654Median salary
65Roles demanding it
20.2%Avg. posting demand

Demand over time

Where it's in demand

Roles whose live postings ask for this skill most often.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
60%
$147,500
Senior Backend Engineer
60%
$185,000
Senior Software Engineer
60%
$162,000
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
60%
$192,267
Senior DevOps Engineer
60%
$184,500
Full-Stack Engineer
53%
$142,400
Staff Software Engineer
50%
$187,000
Site Reliability Engineer
40%
$158,000
API Engineer
40%
$125,763
Backend Engineer
35%
$160,000

Pairs with

Skills that show up alongside this one, beyond chance.

Kubernetes48 roles
Object-Oriented Programming48 roles
CI/CD55 roles
Docker32 roles
Code Review38 roles
C/C++34 roles
Observability50 roles
Cloud Infrastructure48 roles
Containerization30 roles
REST APIs44 roles
Platform Engineering32 roles
Systems Engineering35 roles

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