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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

networking

1,046 live US technical postings name networking 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 1,046 postings naming networking that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer52.8%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer37.8%
  3. 3Security Engineer4.9%
  4. 4Frontend Engineer1.3%

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 networking is named
n = 593
10th
$120k
25th
$155k
Median
$192k
75th
$221k
90th
$253k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA13.8%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA11.2%
  3. 3Remote9.3%
  4. 4New York, NY6.7%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4.4%
  6. 6Washington, DC3.3%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.8%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.6%

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.