Job market reports · Skill · October 2026
iam
691 live US technical postings name iam 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 691 postings naming iam that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer39.1%
- 2Security Engineer28.7%
- 3Software Engineer24.2%
- 4Data Engineer3.2%
- 5Backend Engineer1.6%
- 6Full-Stack Engineer1.4%
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.
- 1Remote16.8%
- 2San Francisco, CA10.9%
- 3New York, NY8.5%
- 4Washington, DC5.6%
- 5Silicon Valley, CA5.1%
- 6Boston, MA4.5%
- 7Seattle, WA3.2%
- 8Austin, TX2.5%
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.