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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

encryption

205 live US technical postings name encryption 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 205 postings naming encryption that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer42%
  2. 2Security Engineer33.7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer13.2%
  4. 4Data Engineer5.9%
  5. 5Backend Engineer1.5%
  6. 6Frontend Engineer1.5%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer1%
  8. 8Machine Learning 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 encryption is named
n = 113
10th
$126k
25th
$155k
Median
$188k
75th
$205k
90th
$247k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote12.2%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA11.2%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA10.7%
  4. 4Washington, DC7.8%
  5. 5Los Angeles, CA5.9%
  6. 6New York, NY3.9%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.9%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.9%

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.