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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

sast

160 live US technical postings name sast 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 160 postings naming sast that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer66.9%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer15%
  3. 3Software Engineer14.4%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer3.1%

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.

Disclosed pay where sast is named
n = 106
10th
$130k
25th
$153k
Median
$185k
75th
$229k
90th
$250k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote22.5%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.5%
  3. 3New York, NY10%
  4. 4Boston, MA4.4%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA3.8%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.1%
  7. 7Washington, DC3.1%
  8. 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.