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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

authentication

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 209 postings naming authentication that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer51.7%
  2. 2Security Engineer25.8%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.7%
  4. 4Backend Engineer4.3%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer3.3%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer3.3%
  7. 7AI Engineer1.9%
  8. 8Machine Learning 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 = 35
10th
$163k
25th
$184k
Median
$230k
75th
$259k
90th
$280k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA26.3%
  2. 2Remote15.8%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA8.1%
  4. 4New York, NY6.2%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.7%
  6. 6Seattle, WA5.3%
  7. 7Boston, MA3.8%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.4%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.