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SQL security jobs

The open security roles whose posting names SQL, read every hour from the employers' careers systems. An employer whose every posting names it is describing itself, so its roles are left out.

220
postings that name it
$154k–$313k
a year, typical
100
employers
87
remote
Postings read 15 Nov 2026, 17:08 UTC

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Postings asking for SQL

Top 150 here, 220 in all.

How often postings name SQL

SQL's row in What Cybersecurity Jobs Require, our research over 11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the roles it counts, and each table its place among the others in the report.

Tools, clouds, languages and frameworks named

Which tools, clouds, languages and frameworks do security job postings name?

Tool or skillPostings naming itShare of postings read
SQL221
3,037 security postings open on 14 Nov 2026 whose employer's board publishes a full description (696 employers), 99.9% of all open roles. What Cybersecurity Jobs Require, figure 7, live data 11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026.

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SQL in security hiring, from the postings

How common is SQL in security job postings?

220 of the 3,029 open security postings name it (7.3%), as a requirement or a preference; 87 of those roles are listed as remote.

What do security roles naming SQL pay?

They state a typical $154k–$313k/yr, middle $186k/yr, against $200k/yr for every security posting read. The difference reflects which roles ask for SQL as much as the skill itself.

Which kind of security work uses SQL most?

Security Operations & Incident Response (69 postings, 18% of that specialty's), Security Engineering (46 postings, 6% of that specialty's), Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) (25 postings, 7% of that specialty's).

Which employers name SQL in their security postings?

Sophos (17), Palo Alto Networks (10), Cloudflare (7), Coupang (7), Snowflake (7), Anthropic (6) name it in the most open postings now.

Counted beside it: Python, Go, PowerShell, Rust.

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