on-call jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-07-04, on-call appears in 540 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — most often required for Software Engineer roles, with demand up 14% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-07-04
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Frequently asked questions about on-call
+Is on-call in demand in 2026?
Yes. on-call appears in 540 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-07-04, with demand up 14% vs the prior 4 weeks. It is most often required for Software Engineer roles (34% of Software Engineer postings list it).
+What jobs require on-call?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-07-04, the job titles most likely to require on-call are Software Engineer (34% of postings list on-call), Engineering Manager (10% of postings list on-call), Backend Engineer (7% of postings list on-call).
+What skills are commonly paired with on-call?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-07-04), on-call most often appears alongside observability, Distributed systems, incident response, Kubernetes, AWS.
+Where is on-call most in demand?
As of 2026-07-04, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring on-call are San Francisco, New York City, Bengaluru, London, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new on-call content and jobs?
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Weekly job postings requiring on-call — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Job titles most likely to require on-call
| Role | Postings mentioning | % requiring |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 183 | 33.9% |
| Engineering Manager | 56 | 10.4% |
| Backend Engineer | 38 | 7.0% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 37 | 6.9% |
| Platform Engineer | 14 | 2.6% |
| Staff Software Engineer | 13 | 2.4% |
| Software Engineering Manager | 11 | 2.0% |
| DevOps Engineer | 9 | 1.7% |
| Director of Engineering | 8 | 1.5% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 7 | 1.3% |
Top metros hiring for on-call
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 42 | 7.8% |
| New York City | 34 | 6.3% |
| Bengaluru | 16 | 3.0% |
| London | 15 | 2.8% |
| Toronto | 12 | 2.2% |
| Austin | 7 | 1.3% |
| Seattle | 7 | 1.3% |
| Boston | 6 | 1.1% |
| Palo Alto | 6 | 1.1% |
Skills commonly paired with on-call
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-07-04. 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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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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