Cloud hiring report: August 2026

Summary

5,452

Distinct cloud/DevOps postings in August

A role posted on two sites counts once.

AWS is the most cited cloud among postings that name one.

73.2% · n=2,698

Brazil regained share and remains the largest market.

35.9% · n=1,957

Security overtook Solutions Architect as the most common role, largely through general information-security postings.

31.1% · n=1,693

Staffing and recruitment firms posted a larger share of roles than in July.

6.7% · n=364

Half of the postings that name a cloud cite more than one, about the same as in July.

50.1% · n=2,698

Volume

August had 5,452 distinct postings.

Postings by month

Distinct postings: a role posted on two sites counts once

Distinct postings, July and August 2026
Category	Value
Apr	2604
May	2987
Jun	3487
Jul	7474
Aug	5452

We counted 5,452 distinct cloud and DevOps postings in August.

Countries

Brazil accounts for 35.9% of postings, 2.2 points more than in July, followed by Mexico (21.2%) and Colombia (12.1%).

Postings by country

% of August 2026 postings; ▲▼ change in points from July

Share of postings by country, August 2026
Category	Value	n	Previous	Change
Brazil	35.9%	1,957	33.7%	+2.2 pp
Mexico	21.2%	1,156	22.9%	-1.7 pp
Colombia	12.1%	662	15.9%	-3.8 pp
Argentina	7.6%	415	7.9%	-0.3 pp
Chile	6.8%	371	5.9%	+0.9 pp
Peru	6.2%	337	5.0%	+1.2 pp
Costa Rica	2.3%	126	3.4%	-1.1 pp

Brazil holds 35.9% of postings, up from July, and Mexico 21.2%. Colombia gave back most of July's gain, at 12.1%, while Chile (6.8%) and Peru (6.2%) edged up. The three largest markets account for 69.2%.

Separately, 257 postings are remote roles that don't list a country. We keep them visible rather than adding them to a market.

These markets rest on very few postings, so we hold them apart.

Ecuador n=54 · 1 source Guatemala n=50 · 1 source Panama n=35 · 2 sources Uruguay n=31 · 1 source Bolivia n=1 · 1 source

Roles

Security is now the most posted role, at 31.1% (+4.5 points from July). Solutions Architect fell 2.9 points, to 29.8%.

Postings by role

% of postings, July and August

Role share of postings, July vs. August 2026
Category	Previous	Current	Change
Solutions Architect	32.7%	29.8%	-2.9 pp
Security	26.6%	31.1%	+4.5 pp
Cloud Engineering	17.3%	15.2%	-2.1 pp
DevOps	14.1%	13.9%	-0.2 pp
SRE	5.0%	6.2%	+1.2 pp
Platform Engineering	3.6%	3.2%	-0.4 pp
MLOps	0.8%	0.8%	+0.0 pp

Compared only with July, so read it as a direction of change.

Security is now the most common role at 31.1%, up from 26.6% in July, just ahead of Solutions Architect at 29.8%. Cloud Engineering is at 15.2% and DevOps at 13.9%, both close to July. As in July, many of the Security postings are general information-security roles whose titles don't mention cloud, which lifts the category.

Senior roles are 20.6% of postings, slightly below July's 22.6%. Skills are listed on 65.2% of August's postings.

Employer	Postings
EPAM Systems	94
Jobgether	84
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	71
Deloitte	49
CI&T	43
Auth21	40

Employers

By employer type, Consulting (41.8%) leads; by seniority, Mid (68.8%).

Employer type

% by employer type, August 2026

Who employs cloud talent
Category	Value	n
Consulting	41.8%	2,117
Other	25.2%	1,276
Fintech	11.7%	592
Enterprise SaaS	7.3%	370
Staffing	6.1%	310
Healthtech	2.0%	103
E-commerce	1.8%	89

Contract type

% of August 2026 postings

How roles are contracted
Category	Value	n
Full-time	92.9%	5,064
Contract	6.2%	339
Internship	0.6%	34
Part-time	0.2%	9
Freelance	0.1%	6

Remote work

% of August 2026 postings

How far “remote” reaches
Category	Value	n
Remote within-country	74.6%	3,775
On-site	22.3%	1,127
LATAM-wide remote	2.5%	124
Global remote	0.7%	34

Seniority

% of August 2026 postings

Seniority mix
Category	Value	n
Mid	68.8%	3,750
Senior	20.6%	1,125
Lead	3.9%	214
Management	3.1%	169
Junior	2.7%	146
Staff	0.9%	48

Cloud providers

AWS appears in 73.2% of postings that name a cloud, Azure in 64.5% and GCP in 41.2%. Azure fell the most from July (−1.8 points).

Provider mentions

% of postings that name a cloud; a posting can name several

Provider citation rate among postings that name a cloud, August 2026
Category	Value	n	Previous	Change
AWS	73.2%	2,698	74.2%	-1.0 pp
Azure	64.5%	2,698	66.3%	-1.8 pp
GCP	41.2%	2,698	42.8%	-1.6 pp

Among the 2,698 postings that name a cloud, AWS is cited by 73.2%, Azure by 64.5% and GCP by 41.2%, the same order as in July. Multi-cloud postings are 50.1%, down slightly from 51.7%.

Pay is listed on 9.9% of postings. Certifications appear on 16.2% of postings, led again by CISSP in 319 postings. English appears on 30.9%, and 71.8% of those ask for an advanced level. Where stated, the median minimum experience is 4 years.

Tools

The most requested combination is Kubernetes + a named cloud (20.2% of postings). Grafana appears in 49.1% of postings that name an observability tool.

Tool combinations

% of August 2026 postings

Tools that travel together
Category	Value	n
Kubernetes + a named cloud	20.2%	1,104
Terraform + Kubernetes	14.1%	769
Docker + Kubernetes	12.7%	692
Terraform + K8s + AWS	10.5%	575

Observability

% of postings that name an observability tool

Observability stack (where named)
Category	Value	n
Grafana	49.1%	340
Prometheus	37.1%	257
Datadog	26.8%	186
CloudWatch	21.2%	147
Splunk	19.0%	132
Dynatrace	15.0%	104
OpenTelemetry	11.0%	76

Benefits

The most listed benefit is Health insurance, in 82.2% of postings that list benefits, followed by Meal voucher (47.8%).

% of postings that list benefits

Benefits, where listed
Category	Value	n
Health insurance	82.2%	1,449
Meal voucher	47.8%	842
Dental	44.5%	785
Learning budget	38.2%	673
Gym	28.2%	497
Transport voucher	25.8%	454
Wellness days	19.9%	351

Red flags

93.5% of postings don't state pay and 80.1% list no benefits.

% of August 2026 postings

Posting red flags
Category	Value	n
Pay not stated	93.5%	5,095
No benefits listed	80.1%	4,365
Excessive requirements	8.5%	465
Generic agency post	8.1%	444
Unclear role	5.8%	316

Internships

August had 34 internships. Security accounts for 55.9% of them, and Brazil for 29.4%.

34internships this month

0.6%of the cloud & DevOps pool

By month

Internships posted per month

Internships by month
Category	Value
Jun	10
Jul	39
Aug	34

By role

% of August 2026 internships

Which roles open internships
Category	Value	n
Security	55.9%	19
DevOps	14.7%	5
Cloud Engineering	11.8%	4
Solutions Architect	8.8%	3
SRE	5.9%	2
Platform Engineering	2.9%	1

By country

% of August 2026 internships

Where they open
Category	Value	n
Brazil	29.4%	10
Mexico	17.6%	6
Argentina	11.8%	4
Chile	8.8%	3
Costa Rica	8.8%	3
Colombia	5.9%	2
Ecuador	5.9%	2

AI data labeling

August had 418 AI data-labeling roles. Hire Feed posted 20.8% of them, and Brazil accounts for 41.4%.

×3.3since April

418distinct roles this month

7.7%the size of the cloud & DevOps pool

Data-annotation gig work (Mindrift, Toloka, Scale AI, Outlier, and staffing platforms). Tracked apart from the cloud and DevOps pool; postings are deduped the same way, since one platform repeats a role hundreds of times.

By month

Data-labeling roles posted per month

Data-labeling roles by month
Category	Value
Apr	126
May	255
Jun	408
Jul	603
Aug	418

By platform

% of August 2026 data-labeling roles

Top posting platforms
Category	Value	n
Hire Feed	20.8%	87
Alignerr	13.4%	56
Jobgether	3.3%	14
Deel	3.1%	13
EPAM Systems	2.2%	9
Crossing Hurdles	1.9%	8
Hired	1.9%	8

By country

% of August 2026 data-labeling roles

Where they are posted
Category	Value	n
Brazil	41.4%	173
Mexico	17.0%	71
Argentina	14.8%	62
Colombia	12.2%	51
Costa Rica	5.5%	23
Chile	2.6%	11

Trends

Since April, Security (+23.7 points) and Solutions Architect (+10.6) rose the most among roles; DevOps fell 20.2 points. By country, the biggest change is Brazil (−5.2 points).

Roles

Roles (Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug)
Category	Series	Current
Security	7.4%, 8.3%, 15.0%, 26.6%, 31.1%	31.1%
Solutions Architect	19.2%, 20.3%, 26.2%, 32.7%, 29.8%	29.8%
Cloud Engineering	19.6%, 21.0%, 19.6%, 17.3%, 15.2%	15.2%
DevOps	34.1%, 31.4%, 23.9%, 14.1%, 13.9%	13.9%
SRE	12.3%, 11.4%, 9.3%, 5.0%, 6.2%	6.2%
Platform Engineering	4.8%, 5.4%, 4.9%, 3.6%, 3.2%	3.2%
MLOps	2.5%, 2.2%, 1.2%, 0.8%, 0.8%	0.8%

Countries

Geography (Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug)
Category	Series	Current
Brazil	41.1%, 43.7%, 37.8%, 33.7%, 35.9%	35.9%
Mexico	25.8%, 20.9%, 23.4%, 22.9%, 21.2%	21.2%
Colombia	10.7%, 11.7%, 11.8%, 15.9%, 12.1%	12.1%
Argentina	8.1%, 6.9%, 8.2%, 7.9%, 7.6%	7.6%
Chile	4.3%, 4.0%, 5.5%, 5.9%, 6.8%	6.8%
Peru	3.2%, 3.4%, 4.9%, 5.0%, 6.2%	6.2%
Costa Rica	2.6%, 3.1%, 3.2%, 3.4%, 2.3%	2.3%
Ecuador	0.3%, 0.7%, 0.6%, 0.9%, 1.0%	1.0%

Providers

Cloud providers (Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug)
Category	Series	Current
AWS	68.3%, 72.0%, 72.1%, 74.2%, 73.2%	73.2%
Azure	55.7%, 61.1%, 61.1%, 66.3%, 64.5%	64.5%
GCP	37.4%, 37.4%, 39.6%, 42.8%, 41.2%	41.2%

Methodology

How it was built

We collect cloud and DevOps job postings from four sources (LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Workable and Greenhouse) and remove duplicates, so a role listed on two sites counts once. We keep only roles posted within the month, across seven cloud role categories: cloud engineer, DevOps, SRE, platform engineer, security, solutions architect and MLOps. August is the fifth published edition; the comparison base is July 2026.

Solid and soft

Country, role and provider signals appear on most postings. Salary, certifications, English level and years of experience are sparse.

Known limits

This describes the postings we track, not a census of the market. General information-security roles weigh more since July. From July we count a posting as an internship only when it offers one.

Fill rates

Country95.3%

Cloud providers49.5%

Years of experience50.5%

English level30.9%

Certifications16.2%

Salary10.4%

Required skills65.2%

Work arrangement3.9%

Data-labeling gigs 4187.7%

We keep AI data-labeling and model-training gigs out of the main counts. This month there were 418, about 7.7% of the size of the main pool. They are reported only here.

Cloud hiring report: August 2026

Summary

Volume

Postings by month

Countries

Postings by country

Roles

Postings by role

Top employers by distinct postings, August 2026

Employers

Employer type

Contract type

Remote work

Seniority

Cloud providers

Provider mentions

Tools

Tool combinations

Observability

Benefits

Red flags

Internships

By month

By role

By country

AI data labeling

By month

By platform

By country

Trends

Roles

Countries

Providers

Methodology

How it was built

Solid and soft

Known limits