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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

cloud security

335 live US technical postings name cloud security 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 335 postings naming cloud security that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer77%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer12.2%
  3. 3Software Engineer8.4%
  4. 4Data 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 cloud security is named
n = 188
10th
$135k
25th
$158k
Median
$185k
75th
$212k
90th
$256k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote17.9%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA11.3%
  3. 3New York, NY10.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA5.1%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.5%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.9%
  7. 7Austin, TX3.3%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA2.1%

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.