alerting jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, alerting appears in 2,887 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Software Engineer has the most postings mentioning alerting, with demand down 41% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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Frequently asked questions about alerting
+Is alerting in demand in 2026?
Yes. alerting appears in 2,887 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 41% vs the prior 4 weeks. Software Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning alerting (22.8% of all postings mentioning alerting).
+What jobs require alerting?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning alerting are Observability Engineer (26.7% of that role’s postings mention alerting), Core Infrastructure Engineer (25.6% of that role’s postings mention alerting), AI Operations Engineer (18.8% of that role’s postings mention alerting).
+What skills are commonly paired with alerting?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), alerting most often appears alongside monitoring, observability, Python, CI/CD, Kubernetes.
+Where is alerting most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring alerting are New York City, San Francisco, Bengaluru, London, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring alerting — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles most likely to require alerting
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Observability Engineer | 8 | 26.7% |
| Core Infrastructure Engineer | 11 | 25.6% |
| AI Operations Engineer | 6 | 18.8% |
| DevOps Manager | 5 | 17.9% |
| Platform Engineering Manager | 7 | 17.5% |
| Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | 22 | 17.5% |
| IT Systems Administrator | 4 | 16.0% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 330 | 15.7% |
| Production Engineer | 8 | 15.7% |
| Site Reliability Engineering Manager | 7 | 13.7% |
Roles with the most alerting postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 659 | 22.8% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 330 | 11.4% |
| DevOps Engineer | 202 | 7.0% |
| Data Engineer | 135 | 4.7% |
| Platform Engineer | 120 | 4.2% |
| Backend Engineer | 85 | 2.9% |
| Engineering Manager | 85 | 2.9% |
| Security Engineer | 43 | 1.5% |
| Product Manager | 38 | 1.3% |
| Infrastructure Engineer | 36 | 1.2% |
Top metros hiring for alerting
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 139 | 4.8% |
| San Francisco | 137 | 4.7% |
| Bengaluru | 90 | 3.1% |
| London | 84 | 2.9% |
| Toronto | 47 | 1.6% |
| Seattle | 45 | 1.6% |
| Berlin | 41 | 1.4% |
| Warsaw | 33 | 1.1% |
| Mountain View | 32 | 1.1% |
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 2026-09-28. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning alerting by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s alerting postings by all alerting postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 21e0ad178b546254
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- 2026-09-28
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- 90
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