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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

vulnerability management

275 live US technical postings name vulnerability management 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 275 postings naming vulnerability management that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Security Engineer79.6%
  2. 2Software Engineer10.5%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.3%
  4. 4Machine Learning Engineer1.5%

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 vulnerability management is named
n = 162
10th
$114k
25th
$139k
Median
$177k
75th
$219k
90th
$256k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote16.7%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13.5%
  3. 3New York, NY8.4%
  4. 4Washington, DC5.8%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA4.7%
  6. 6San Diego, CA2.2%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.2%
  8. 8Chicago, IL1.8%

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.