alerting jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-05-17, alerting appears in 2,582 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — most often required for Software Engineer roles, with demand down 47% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17
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Frequently asked questions about alerting
+Is alerting in demand in 2026?
Yes. alerting appears in 2,582 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 47% vs the prior 4 weeks. It is most often required for Software Engineer roles (17% of Software Engineer postings list it).
+What jobs require alerting?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, the job titles most likely to require alerting are Software Engineer (17% of postings list alerting), Site Reliability Engineer (10% of postings list alerting), DevOps Engineer (7% of postings list alerting).
+What skills are commonly paired with alerting?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-05-17), alerting most often appears alongside monitoring, observability, Python, CI/CD, Kubernetes.
+Where is alerting most in demand?
As of 2026-05-17, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring alerting are San Francisco, New York City, London, Bengaluru, Mountain View, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new alerting content and jobs?
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Weekly job postings requiring alerting — last 90 days
Job titles most likely to require alerting
| Role | Postings mentioning | % requiring |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 434 | 16.8% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 259 | 10.0% |
| DevOps Engineer | 179 | 6.9% |
| Data Engineer | 114 | 4.4% |
| Platform Engineer | 95 | 3.7% |
| Backend Engineer | 93 | 3.6% |
| Infrastructure Engineer | 70 | 2.7% |
| Engineering Manager | 65 | 2.5% |
| Staff Software Engineer | 62 | 2.4% |
| Security Engineer | 35 | 1.4% |
Top metros hiring for alerting
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 197 | 27.7% |
| New York City | 175 | 24.6% |
| London | 104 | 14.6% |
| Bengaluru | 79 | 11.1% |
| Mountain View | 35 | 4.9% |
| Paris | 34 | 4.8% |
| Seattle | 31 | 4.4% |
| Berlin | 30 | 4.2% |
| Toronto | 26 | 3.7% |
Skills commonly paired with alerting
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- entity_id
- 21e0ad178b546254
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- 2026-05-17
- 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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