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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

cloud security

247 live US technical postings name cloud security in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 247 postings naming cloud security that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer84.2%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.3%
  3. 3Software Engineer7.3%

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 cloud security is named

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 26 of these postings state one. We would rather show nothing than a median built on a handful of rows.

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote17.8%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA15.8%
  3. 3New York, NY8.5%
  4. 4Austin, TX5.3%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA5.3%
  6. 6Washington, DC4.9%
  7. 7Seattle, WA4%
  8. 8Chicago, IL3.6%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.