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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

encryption

183 live US technical postings name encryption 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 183 postings naming encryption that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer41.5%
  2. 2Security Engineer38.8%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer10.4%
  4. 4Data Engineer3.8%
  5. 5Frontend Engineer2.2%
  6. 6Backend 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 encryption is named
n = 101
10th
$125k
25th
$155k
Median
$188k
75th
$211k
90th
$250k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote15.3%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13.7%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA10.4%
  4. 4Washington, DC8.7%
  5. 5Los Angeles, CA4.4%
  6. 6New York, NY3.8%
  7. 7Boston, MA3.3%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.7%

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.