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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

cybersecurity

228 live US technical postings name cybersecurity 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 228 postings naming cybersecurity that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer50%
  2. 2Security Engineer30.7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.9%
  4. 4AI Engineer3.1%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer2.6%
  6. 6Data Engineer2.2%
  7. 7Data Scientist2.2%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer2.2%

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 cybersecurity is named
n = 102
10th
$100k
25th
$119k
Median
$150k
75th
$185k
90th
$218k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Washington, DC8.8%
  2. 2Remote6.6%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA4.4%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA2.6%
  5. 5Austin, TX2.2%
  6. 6New York, NY2.2%
  7. 7Denver, CO1.3%
  8. 8San Diego, CA1.3%

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.