Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

devsecops

206 live US technical postings name devsecops 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 206 postings naming devsecops that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer37.9%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer25.2%
  3. 3Security Engineer25.2%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer3.9%
  5. 5Data Engineer1.9%
  6. 6Machine Learning Engineer1.9%
  7. 7Backend Engineer1.5%
  8. 8AI Engineer1%

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 devsecops is named

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 20 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. 1Washington, DC12.6%
  2. 2Remote11.2%
  3. 3San Diego, CA4.9%
  4. 4San Francisco, CA3.9%
  5. 5Austin, TX3.4%
  6. 6Denver, CO2.9%
  7. 7New York, NY1.9%
  8. 8Seattle, WA1.5%

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.