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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

configuration management

174 live US technical postings name configuration management 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 174 postings naming configuration management that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer61.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer28.7%
  3. 3Security Engineer6.3%
  4. 4Data Engineer1.1%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer1.1%

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 configuration management is named
n = 73
10th
$110k
25th
$131k
Median
$160k
75th
$200k
90th
$225k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY6.3%
  2. 2Washington, DC4.6%
  3. 3Remote4%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA2.9%
  5. 5Seattle, WA2.9%
  6. 6Dallas, TX1.7%
  7. 7Denver, CO1.7%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA1.7%

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.