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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

authentication

349 live US technical postings name authentication in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 349 postings naming authentication that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer56.4%
  2. 2Security Engineer21.2%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.3%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer5.2%
  5. 5Backend Engineer4.9%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer3.7%
  7. 7AI Engineer1.4%

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 authentication is named
n = 200
10th
$150k
25th
$170k
Median
$197k
75th
$229k
90th
$262k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA21.8%
  2. 2Remote14%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA10.3%
  4. 4New York, NY9.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.6%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.7%
  7. 7Austin, TX2%
  8. 8Washington, DC2%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.