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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

vpn

152 live US technical postings name vpn 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 152 postings naming vpn that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer36.8%
  2. 2Security Engineer34.2%
  3. 3Software Engineer27%
  4. 4Full-Stack 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 vpn is named
n = 89
10th
$143k
25th
$155k
Median
$180k
75th
$200k
90th
$222k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA11.2%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA11.2%
  3. 3Remote9.2%
  4. 4New York, NY4.6%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.6%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA3.3%
  7. 7Seattle, WA3.3%
  8. 8Austin, TX2%

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.