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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

cryptography

177 live US technical postings name cryptography 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 177 postings naming cryptography that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer57.1%
  2. 2Security Engineer37.3%
  3. 3Backend Engineer1.7%
  4. 4DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.7%
  5. 5Frontend 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 cryptography is named
n = 125
10th
$132k
25th
$163k
Median
$195k
75th
$231k
90th
$266k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Silicon Valley, CA15.3%
  2. 2Remote9.6%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA8.5%
  4. 4Seattle, WA7.9%
  5. 5New York, NY4.5%
  6. 6Washington, DC4%
  7. 7Boston, MA3.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.7%

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.