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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

cybersecurity

260 live US technical postings name cybersecurity 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 260 postings naming cybersecurity that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer45%
  2. 2Security Engineer36.9%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer5.4%
  4. 4Data Scientist3.1%
  5. 5Data Engineer2.3%
  6. 6AI Engineer1.5%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer1.5%
  8. 8Machine Learning 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 cybersecurity is named
n = 136
10th
$108k
25th
$123k
Median
$155k
75th
$193k
90th
$221k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Washington, DC9.2%
  2. 2Remote5%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA3.8%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA2.7%
  5. 5San Diego, CA2.3%
  6. 6Austin, TX1.9%
  7. 7Seattle, WA1.9%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.5%

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.