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Technology

Network and Computer Systems Administrator in San Francisco

110 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 110 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job
52%reported bachelor’s degree
  • Bachelor’s degree52%
  • Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree20%
  • Some college, no degree10%

Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.

O*NET 15-1244.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$82,760
10th percentile
$129,680
median
$193,250
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

OpenAI · SpaceX · Roblox · Anthropic · Scale AI · Sierra · Cursor · Databricks · Figma · Harvey · Kodiak Robotics · MongoDB · Skild AI · Zoox · Baseten · Cognition · Decagon · Mercor · Nimble Robotics · Perplexity · Vercel · Agility Robotics · Airtable · Artech Information System · Asana · Browserbase · Chime · Discord · Mach Industries · Notion · Oscar Health · Redwood Materials · Ridgeline · Robinhood · SBT Global · Verkada · Zip

The same role elsewhere

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