Engineering Director jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-19, Skillenai has indexed 213 job postings with the title “Engineering Director” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is Distributed systems, with demand down 25% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-19
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+How many Engineering Director jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 213 job postings with the title “Engineering Director” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-19, with demand down 25% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Engineering Director jobs require?
Across Engineering Director postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-19, the skills mentioned most often are Distributed systems, CI/CD, software engineering, AWS, observability.
+Which cities are hiring the most Engineering Director?
As of 2026-09-19, Engineering Director postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in New York City, San Francisco, San Jose, Bengaluru, Boston.
+Is Engineering Director a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 213 Engineering Director postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-19, with demand down 25% 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
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Distributed systems | 46 | 21.6% |
| CI/CD | 33 | 15.5% |
| software engineering | 30 | 14.1% |
| AWS | 29 | 13.6% |
| observability | 25 | 11.7% |
| Python | 22 | 10.3% |
| APIs | 20 | 9.4% |
| Azure | 19 | 8.9% |
| HVAC | 15 | 7.0% |
| scalability | 15 | 7.0% |
| Engineering leadership | 15 | 7.0% |
| security | 15 | 7.0% |
| Preventive maintenance | 15 | 7.0% |
| reliability | 14 | 6.6% |
| Agile | 14 | 6.6% |
Top metros hiring Engineering Director
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 14 | 6.6% |
| San Francisco | 7 | 3.3% |
| San Jose | 6 | 2.8% |
| Bengaluru | 5 | 2.3% |
| Boston | 5 | 2.3% |
| Santa Clara | 4 | 1.9% |
| Toronto | 4 | 1.9% |
| Milpitas | 3 | 1.4% |
| Chicago | 2 | 0.9% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-19, 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
- 2026-09-19
- window_days
- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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