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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

application security

159 live US technical postings name application security in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 159 postings naming application security that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer76.1%
  2. 2Software Engineer20.1%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.9%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where application security is named
n = 92
10th
$130k
25th
$155k
Median
$198k
75th
$233k
90th
$265k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA16.4%
  2. 2Remote11.9%
  3. 3New York, NY11.3%
  4. 4Seattle, WA5.7%
  5. 5Boston, MA3.8%
  6. 6Chicago, IL3.1%
  7. 7Silicon Valley, CA3.1%
  8. 8Washington, DC3.1%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.