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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

threat modeling

349 live US technical postings name threat modeling 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 349 postings naming threat modeling that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer81.1%
  2. 2Software Engineer14.9%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.2%

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 threat modeling is named
n = 232
10th
$130k
25th
$168k
Median
$195k
75th
$235k
90th
$280k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote17.5%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA16.9%
  3. 3New York, NY10%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA8.9%
  5. 5Boston, MA5.2%
  6. 6Seattle, WA4%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.3%
  8. 8Washington, DC2.3%

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.