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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

configuration management

199 live US technical postings name configuration management 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 199 postings naming configuration management that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer61.3%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer25.6%
  3. 3Security Engineer7%
  4. 4Data Engineer2.5%
  5. 5Data Analyst1%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer1%

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 = 95
10th
$110k
25th
$140k
Median
$160k
75th
$200k
90th
$231k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY5%
  2. 2Remote4.5%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA3.5%
  5. 5Seattle, WA2.5%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA2%
  7. 7Washington, DC2%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.5%

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.