Engineering Director jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities

As of 2026-07-04, Skillenai has indexed 141 job postings with the title “Engineering Director” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Distributed systems, with demand up 208% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-07-04

Postings · last 90 days
141
Demand vs prior month
up 208% vs the prior 4 weeks
Most-required skill
Top hiring metro
San Francisco

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+How many Engineering Director jobs are being posted in 2026?

Skillenai has indexed 141 job postings with the title “Engineering Director” over the 90 days ending 2026-07-04, with demand up 208% vs the prior 4 weeks.

+What skills do Engineering Director jobs require?

Across Engineering Director postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-07-04, the skills mentioned most often are Distributed systems, CI/CD, software engineering, observability, Python.

+Which cities are hiring the most Engineering Director?

As of 2026-07-04, Engineering Director postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in San Francisco, New York City, Bengaluru, Uk, London.

+Is Engineering Director a good career path right now?

Skillenai indexes 141 Engineering Director postings over the 90 days ending 2026-07-04, with demand up 208% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Engineering Director postings is Distributed systems, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.

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Weekly Engineering Director postings — last 90 days

Skills most often required for Engineering Director

NamePostingsShare
Distributed systems1913.5%
CI/CD1812.8%
software engineering1812.8%
observability139.2%
Python128.5%
AWS117.8%
Engineering leadership117.8%
TypeScript107.1%
reliability96.4%
machine learning96.4%
React96.4%
security96.4%
testing85.7%
scalability85.7%
Kubernetes75.0%

Top metros hiring Engineering Director

NamePostingsShare
San Francisco75.0%
New York City53.5%
Bengaluru32.1%
Uk32.1%
London21.4%
Paris21.4%
San Jose21.4%
Sunnyvale21.4%
Amherst10.7%

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How this was computed

Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-07-04, matching postings whose canonical role is “Engineering Director”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).

role
Engineering Director
source
Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
data_as_of
2026-07-04
window_days
90
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Compiled by Jared Rand · Data sourced from the Skillenai labor market index