Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

networking

519 live US technical postings name networking 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 519 postings naming networking that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer61.1%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer30.8%
  3. 3Security Engineer5%
  4. 4Frontend 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 networking is named
n = 75
10th
$107k
25th
$160k
Median
$183k
75th
$210k
90th
$238k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA15.4%
  2. 2Remote9.8%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA9.1%
  4. 4New York, NY6.4%
  5. 5Seattle, WA5.2%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.7%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.3%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.1%

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.