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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

authorization

219 live US technical postings name authorization 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 219 postings naming authorization that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer52.5%
  2. 2Security Engineer26.5%
  3. 3Backend Engineer6.8%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.4%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer4.1%
  6. 6Frontend 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 authorization is named
n = 133
10th
$151k
25th
$174k
Median
$200k
75th
$233k
90th
$271k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA24.7%
  2. 2Remote15.5%
  3. 3New York, NY11.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.7%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA3.7%
  8. 8Washington, DC1.8%

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.