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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

authorization

252 live US technical postings name authorization 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 252 postings naming authorization that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer52.8%
  2. 2Security Engineer25.4%
  3. 3Backend Engineer7.1%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer4%
  6. 6AI Engineer1.2%
  7. 7Frontend Engineer1.2%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.2%

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 authorization is named
n = 157
10th
$150k
25th
$171k
Median
$200k
75th
$233k
90th
$268k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA23%
  2. 2Remote14.3%
  3. 3New York, NY9.1%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.1%
  5. 5Seattle, WA6.7%
  6. 6Washington, DC4%
  7. 7Boston, MA3.2%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2.4%

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.