Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
devsecops
465 live US technical postings name devsecops in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 465 postings naming devsecops that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Software Engineer40.9%
- 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer23.7%
- 3Security Engineer22.4%
- 4Full-Stack Engineer4.3%
- 5Data Engineer2.6%
- 6AI Engineer1.7%
- 7Data Scientist1.7%
- 8Backend Engineer1.1%
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.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1Washington, DC10.5%
- 2Remote7.5%
- 3Denver, CO3.2%
- 4Los Angeles, CA3.2%
- 5New York, NY3.2%
- 6Silicon Valley, CA2.2%
- 7Chicago, IL1.3%
- 8Seattle, WA1.3%
How we counted
967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.