On-call rotations jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-05-17, On-call rotations appears in 242 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — most often required for Software Engineer roles, with demand down 41% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17

Postings · last 90 days
242
Demand vs prior month
down 41% vs the prior 4 weeks
Top job title · 29% require it
Top hiring metro
New York City

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Frequently asked questions about On-call rotations

+Is On-call rotations in demand in 2026?

Yes. On-call rotations appears in 242 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 41% vs the prior 4 weeks. It is most often required for Software Engineer roles (29% of Software Engineer postings list it).

+What jobs require On-call rotations?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, the job titles most likely to require On-call rotations are Software Engineer (29% of postings list On-call rotations), Engineering Manager (9% of postings list On-call rotations), Site Reliability Engineer (9% of postings list On-call rotations).

+What skills are commonly paired with On-call rotations?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-05-17), On-call rotations most often appears alongside Distributed systems, incident response, observability, Python, AWS.

+Where is On-call rotations most in demand?

As of 2026-05-17, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring On-call rotations are New York City, Bengaluru, London, San Francisco, Hyderabad, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

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Weekly job postings requiring On-call rotations — last 90 days

Job titles most likely to require On-call rotations

RolePostings mentioning% requiring
Software Engineer7129.3%
Engineering Manager218.7%
Site Reliability Engineer218.7%
Backend Engineer145.8%
Backend Software Engineer104.1%
Software Engineering Manager93.7%
Full Stack Software Developer62.5%
Staff Software Engineer62.5%
Technical Program Manager52.1%
Fullstack Product Software Engineer41.7%

Top metros hiring for On-call rotations

NamePostingsShare
New York City1420.6%
Bengaluru1217.6%
London1116.2%
San Francisco913.2%
Hyderabad68.8%
Dublin57.4%
Palo Alto45.9%
Seattle45.9%
Austin34.4%

Skills commonly paired with On-call rotations

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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
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90
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Compiled by Jared Rand · Data sourced from the Skillenai labor market index