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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

compliance

259 live US technical postings name compliance 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 259 postings naming compliance that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer35.5%
  2. 2Security Engineer24.7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer15.4%
  4. 4AI Engineer7.3%
  5. 5Data Engineer6.2%
  6. 6Data Analyst3.5%
  7. 7Data Scientist2.7%
  8. 8Backend Engineer1.5%

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 compliance is named
n = 121
10th
$118k
25th
$150k
Median
$188k
75th
$226k
90th
$264k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA16.2%
  2. 2Remote15.8%
  3. 3New York, NY12.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA7.3%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.6%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.3%
  7. 7Austin, TX1.9%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.9%

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.