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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

network security

237 live US technical postings name network security 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 237 postings naming network security that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer73.8%
  2. 2Software Engineer20.7%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.8%

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 network security is named
n = 147
10th
$117k
25th
$143k
Median
$170k
75th
$218k
90th
$252k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote8.9%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA7.2%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA6.8%
  4. 4New York, NY5.5%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.1%
  6. 6Washington, DC5.1%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA3.4%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.7%

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.