Sign in

Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

firewalls

206 live US technical postings name firewalls 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 206 postings naming firewalls that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer45.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer33%
  3. 3Software Engineer19.9%
  4. 4Full-Stack 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 firewalls is named
n = 117
10th
$105k
25th
$135k
Median
$168k
75th
$196k
90th
$220k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote8.7%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA7.3%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA6.8%
  4. 4Washington, DC6.8%
  5. 5New York, NY4.9%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA2.9%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.9%
  8. 8Austin, TX2.4%

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.