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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

network security

204 live US technical postings name network security 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 204 postings naming network security that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer74%
  2. 2Software Engineer19.1%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer4.9%

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 network security is named
n = 114
10th
$125k
25th
$155k
Median
$179k
75th
$210k
90th
$260k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote9.3%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA7.8%
  3. 3New York, NY7.4%
  4. 4Washington, DC5.4%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA4.9%
  6. 6Seattle, WA4.4%
  7. 7Austin, TX3.4%
  8. 8Los Angeles, CA3.4%

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.