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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

firewalls

164 live US technical postings name firewalls 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 164 postings naming firewalls that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer43.9%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer33.5%
  3. 3Software Engineer21.3%

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 = 88
10th
$120k
25th
$140k
Median
$170k
75th
$198k
90th
$212k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote11%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA6.7%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA6.1%
  4. 4Washington, DC4.9%
  5. 5New York, NY4.3%
  6. 6Austin, TX3.7%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.4%
  8. 8Denver, CO2.4%

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.