Skills

Cybersecurity skills in demand

The languages, clouds, tools and frameworks named in the security postings open right now, read every hour from the employers' careers systems. Each opens the roles asking for it and what they pay.

Postings read 12 Nov 2026, 12:07 UTC

Most named first

Languages

Languages named in open security postings
Skill	Postings	Share	Middle pay	Asked most in
Python	919	44.9%	$204k/yr	Security Engineering
Go	439	21.4%	$210k/yr	Security Engineering
PowerShell	180	8.8%	$172k/yr	Security Operations & Incident Response
Rust	142	6.9%	$215k/yr	Security Engineering

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Cloud and infrastructure

Cloud and infrastructure named in open security postings
Skill	Postings	Share	Middle pay	Asked most in
AWS	716	35.0%	$204k/yr	Security Engineering
Google Cloud	506	24.7%	$204k/yr	Security Engineering
Microsoft Azure	474	23.2%	$194k/yr	Security Engineering
Kubernetes	460	22.5%	$216k/yr	Security Engineering
Terraform	247	12.1%	$205k/yr	Security Engineering

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Tools

Tools named in open security postings
Skill	Postings	Share	Middle pay	Asked most in
SIEM	421	20.6%	$186k/yr	Security Operations & Incident Response
Splunk	121	5.9%	$188k/yr	Security Operations & Incident Response
Active Directory and Entra ID	118	5.8%	$184k/yr	Identity & Access Management
Burp Suite	85	4.2%	$199k/yr	Penetration Testing & Red Team
Microsoft Sentinel	27	1.3%	$194k/yr	Security Operations & Incident Response

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Frameworks and regulations

Frameworks and regulations named in open security postings
Skill	Postings	Share	Middle pay	Asked most in
NIST frameworks	351	17.1%	$187k/yr	Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
ISO 27001	327	16.0%	$200k/yr	Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
SOC 2	296	14.5%	$208k/yr	Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
MITRE ATT&CK	241	11.8%	$195k/yr	Security Operations & Incident Response
FedRAMP	157	7.7%	$203k/yr	Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
PCI DSS	140	6.8%	$185k/yr	Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
GDPR	122	6.0%	$175k/yr	Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
HIPAA	82	4.0%	$200k/yr	Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

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Practices

Practices named in open security postings
Skill	Postings	Share	Middle pay	Asked most in
Vulnerability management	319	15.6%	$210k/yr	Security Engineering
Zero trust	166	8.1%	$213k/yr	Security Engineering
DevSecOps	156	7.6%	$188k/yr	Application & Product Security

Credentials are counted apart: certifications employers ask for. The jobs themselves: openings by job title.

Questions

Skills, counted from the postings

Which skill do cybersecurity postings ask for most?

Of the skills counted here, Python: 919 of the 2,047 open postings name it (44.9%). AWS follows with 716, then Google Cloud with 506.

Which skill comes with the highest salaries?

Kubernetes: the postings naming it state a middle of $216k/yr, against $206k/yr for every posting read. That is the pay of the roles that ask for it, which says as much about those roles as about the skill.

How is a skill counted?

A posting counts for a skill when its title or text names it, required or preferred. One correction applies to every skill alike: when every open posting of an employer names it, the words are that company describing itself (a vendor naming its own product, say), and its postings are left out of that skill.

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