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The Cloud Security Job Market

On 14 Nov 2026, 119 security roles in Cloud Security were open at 101 employers, no employer listing more than 3 of them (2.5%); their median advertised pay was $192k/yr, 4% below the $200k/yr of all security roles.

Data window
11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026
4 days, UTC
Computed
15 Nov 2026, 16:07 UTC
Recomputed every day
Source
The public job boards of the employers this site tracks (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workday, SmartRecruiters and the other systems they post on), read every hour, keeping the postings whose title and description read as security work. Apply clicks are made on CyberJobs.cc; full descriptions come from the employers whose boards publish them.
Method
Version 6. Definitions
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open roles on 14 Nov 2026
119
median advertised pay (all security roles: $200k/yr)
$192k/yr
of open roles at the largest of 101 employers (a tie)
3%

Key findings

  1. 1

    101 employers listed the 119 open roles in Cloud Security; no employer held more than 3 of them (2.5%) and the three largest 9 (7.6%).

    Figure 1
  2. 2

    51 of the 119 open roles in Cloud Security (42.9%) stated pay, with a median of $192k/yr (typical pay $150k to $312k a year), 4% below the $200k/yr of all security roles.

    Figure 2
  3. 3

    3 of the 119 open roles in Cloud Security (2.5%) accepted applicants from any country, against 3.1% of all open security roles; of the 20 countries compared, residents of the United States (59), the United Kingdom (14) and Poland (13) could apply to the most, and residents of Israel and Mexico to the fewest (6 each).

    Figure 5
  4. 4

    The words used most in the titles of open roles in Cloud Security were Engineer or developer (109), Lead (2) and Researcher (2), of 119 open roles.

    Figure 6
  5. 5

    Of the 119 open roles in Cloud Security with a full description, 28 (23.5%) mention a degree, 5 (4.2%) mention a security clearance and 60 (50.4%) state years of experience, a median of 5 years.

    Figure 7
  6. 6

    49 of the 119 described roles in Cloud Security (41.2%) name a security certification; AWS certifications (32), CISSP (24) and CCSP (16) were named most.

    Figure 8
  7. 7

    Among the 3 employers with at least 3 distinct advertised salaries in Cloud Security, MongoDB advertised the highest median ($187k/yr) and UltraViolet Cyber the lowest ($120k/yr).

    Figure 1

Figure 1

Who hires for it

Which employers list security roles in Cloud Security, and what does each advertise?

EmployerOpen rolesShare of open rolesMedian pay a year
CrowdStrike3
2.5%
$150,000
GuidePoint Security3
2.5%
n/a
MongoDB3
2.5%
$187,000
UltraViolet Cyber3
2.5%
$120,000
1GLOBAL2
1.7%
n/a
Agoda2
1.7%
n/a
Altruist2
1.7%
n/a
Braze2
1.7%
n/a
Brillio2
1.7%
n/a
Neura Robotics2
1.7%
n/a
Starling Bank2
1.7%
n/a
Tenable2
1.7%
n/a
Truelogic2
1.7%
n/a
xAI2
1.7%
n/a
3Cloud1
0.8%
n/a
Advens1
0.8%
n/a
Aidoc1
0.8%
n/a
AIFT1
0.8%
n/a
Aikido Security1
0.8%
n/a
airSlate1
0.8%
n/a
Airwallex1
0.8%
n/a
Alloy1
0.8%
n/a
Applied Intuition1
0.8%
n/a
Appspace1
0.8%
n/a
Assured1
0.8%
n/a
Auros1
0.8%
n/a
Axios1
0.8%
n/a
Banner Bank1
0.8%
n/a
Banyan Software1
0.8%
n/a
BJAK1
0.8%
n/a
Black Duck1
0.8%
n/a
Block1
0.8%
n/a
Bloomreach1
0.8%
n/a
Brain Co.1
0.8%
n/a
Bybit1
0.8%
n/a
Chainalysis1
0.8%
n/a
Checkout.com1
0.8%
n/a
ClickHouse1
0.8%
n/a
Cohere1
0.8%
n/a
ControlPlane1
0.8%
n/a
CoreWeave1
0.8%
n/a
Coupang1
0.8%
n/a
CyberOne1
0.8%
n/a
Erbis1
0.8%
n/a
Firmus1
0.8%
n/a
First Due1
0.8%
n/a
Five91
0.8%
n/a
Gruve1
0.8%
n/a
Hex1
0.8%
n/a
Higgsfield AI1
0.8%
n/a

The other 51 rows, in the same order (every value of every row is in the report's data, sent by email):

iCapital, Illumio, incident.io, Included Health, Inetum, inovex, Intercom, Jane, knowmad mood, Logicalis Spain, Muon Space, N-iX, nesto, Newxel, Nscale, Okta, Pacvue, Palo Alto Networks, Phantom, Physitrack, PlayStation (Sony Interactive Entertainment), Qualys, Ramp, Recorded Future, Reflow, Reltio, Ridgeline, Roblox, Robots & Pencils, Rocket Lab, Rogo, Salt Security, Scale AI, Scopely, SentinelOne, SEON, Smile Digital Health, Snowflake, Stripe, Swapcard, Tala, Tanium, Toast, Trend Micro, Veeam, Vercel, Wiz, Workstreet, Xometry, YGO, Zeta Global

Sample. 119 roles in Cloud Security open at the end of 14 Nov 2026, by the employer that lists them: HHI 115 (unconcentrated), against 60 for all security roles.

HHI: the sum of every employer's squared percentage share of the open roles, 0 to 10,000; under 1,500 is unconcentrated, 1,500 to 2,500 moderately and above 2,500 highly concentrated (US merger-guideline thresholds).

Shares are of listings, not of people hired: an employer posting one role for each city or country it hires in weighs more here than its hiring may.

A median needs at least 3 distinct advertised salaries.

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, The Cloud Security Job Market, live data.

Figure 2

What it pays

What do security roles in Cloud Security advertise a year, against every security role on the board?

RolesMedian pay a yearTypical pay fromTypical pay toStating pay
Cloud Security
$192,000
$150,000$312,00042.9%
All security roles
$200,000
$160,000$332,00040.7%

Sample. Roles open on 14 Nov 2026: 119 in Cloud Security, 51 of them stating pay; 3,041 across all security roles.

Pay is the year's pay a posting advertises (the middle of a stated range; an hourly rate counts as 2,080 hours), counted once per distinct salary as the job board counts it. The median and typical pay are the board's: typical pay is the span from the 25th percentile of range midpoints to the 90th percentile of range tops, every figure taken as a full-time year (an hourly rate times 2,080 hours), stated from 3 distinct salaries.

A role whose posting gives no salary or pay range counts as not stating pay.

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, The Cloud Security Job Market, live data.

Figure 3

How its pay is spread

How is the advertised pay of security roles in Cloud Security spread across salary bands?

Advertised pay a yearOpen rolesShare of roles stating payAll security roles
Under $75k a year0
0.0%
2.3%
$75k to $100k0
0.0%
2.2%
$100k to $125k7
13.7%
4.4%
$125k to $150k6
11.8%
10.4%
$150k to $175k4
7.8%
14.0%
$175k to $200k10
19.6%
16.3%
$200k to $250k14
27.5%
28.9%
$250k to $300k9
17.6%
13.0%
$300k a year or more1
2.0%
8.5%

Sample. 51 roles in Cloud Security open on 14 Nov 2026 that state pay, against 1,237 across all security roles.

Each role counts once, at the middle of its advertised range, on the board's one scale (a year's pay; an hourly rate counts as a full-time year). The bands are those of the salary-transparency report.

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, The Cloud Security Job Market, live data.

Figure 4

Who may apply: location rules

Can people apply to security roles in Cloud Security from anywhere, or are they based in some countries?

Location ruleOpen rolesShare of its open rolesAll security roles
Open to applicants anywhere3
2.5%
3.1%
Anywhere except listed countries0
0.0%
0.2%
Based in or limited to listed countries116
97.5%
96.7%
No location rule stated0
0.0%
0.0%

Sample. 119 roles in Cloud Security open at the end of 14 Nov 2026, against 3,041 across all security roles.

The rule is read from each posting's location text, then, where that names no country, from what the posting's own description states, and where both are silent from what the employer states about where it hires.

Most security roles are based in one country, on site, hybrid or remote within it, and count as limited to that country; a role open to applicants anywhere is remote from any country.

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, The Cloud Security Job Market, live data.

Figure 5

Who may apply: roles open to each country

How many roles in Cloud Security can a resident of each country apply to?

CountryOpen rolesShare of its open roles
Any country (roles open to applicants anywhere)
3
2.5%
United States
59
49.6%
United Kingdom
14
11.8%
Poland
13
10.9%
Germany
12
10.1%
Spain
12
10.1%
Ireland
11
9.2%
Portugal
11
9.2%
Canada
10
8.4%
France
10
8.4%
Czechia
9
7.6%
Netherlands
9
7.6%
Slovakia
9
7.6%
Belgium
8
6.7%
India
8
6.7%
Italy
8
6.7%
Sweden
8
6.7%
Greece
7
5.9%
Romania
7
5.9%
Israel
6
5.0%
Mexico
6
5.0%

Sample. 119 roles in Cloud Security open at the end of 14 Nov 2026, for residents of a fixed set of 20 countries.

A country's count is the roles open to applicants anywhere (including roles that state no rule, as on the job board), plus roles whose list names it, plus roles whose exclusion list does not.

The 20 countries are the same in every report of this series: those named most often by the location rules of open security roles on 14 Nov 2026, as the countries a role is based in or limited to or as excluded.

Median pay is over the roles open to that country that state pay (at least 3 distinct advertised salaries).

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, The Cloud Security Job Market, live data.

Figure 6

What the roles are called

Which words do the titles of security roles in Cloud Security use most?

Title wordOpen rolesShare of its open roles
Engineer or developer
109
91.6%
Lead
2
1.7%
Researcher
2
1.7%
Specialist
2
1.7%
Architect
1
0.8%
Consultant or advisor
1
0.8%
Director, head or VP
1
0.8%

Sample. 116 of the 119 roles in Cloud Security open on 14 Nov 2026 use one of these words in their title (97.5%); 7 title words are used.

A title can use several of these words and counts for each. The vocabulary is the job-titles report's.

Median pay needs at least 3 distinct advertised salaries.

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, The Cloud Security Job Market, live data.

Figure 7

What the descriptions ask for

Do security roles in Cloud Security ask for a degree, a certification, a clearance, years of experience or a test?

RequirementRolesShare of described roles
Mentions a PhD1
0.8%
Mentions a PhD or master's9
7.6%
Mentions any degree28
23.5%
Names a security certification49
41.2%
Mentions a security clearance5
4.2%
States years of experience60
50.4%
Asks for 5 years or more45
37.8%
States weekly hours1
0.8%
Mentions a technical assessment or test2
1.7%
Mentions a background check6
5.0%

Sample. 119 roles in Cloud Security open on 14 Nov 2026 whose job board publishes a full description (at 101 employers), 100.0% of its open roles; 3,037 described roles across all security roles.

A mention can be a requirement or a preference ('a CISSP is a plus'): the figure counts both. The patterns are those of the requirements report, and a certification is one of the one list the certification pages count.

Only roles whose job board publishes a full description are read, so this figure describes those roles.

A specialty's figure is shown when its described roles outweigh the average of the specialties (93.3 described roles: the weight of every specialty's shares around the shares of all described roles, fitted on their own counts).

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, The Cloud Security Job Market, live data.

Figure 8

Certifications the postings name

Which security certifications do the postings for roles in Cloud Security name?

CertificationRoles naming itShare of described roles
AWS certifications
32
26.9%
CISSP
24
20.2%
CCSP
16
13.4%
GIAC certifications (GSEC, GCIH, GPEN and others)
13
10.9%
Microsoft security certifications (AZ-500, SC-200, SC-100, SC-300)
11
9.2%
CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist)
10
8.4%
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer
9
7.6%
OSCP
8
6.7%
CompTIA Security+
6
5.0%
CISM
3
2.5%
CCSK
2
1.7%
CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker)
2
1.7%
CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor)
2
1.7%
CompTIA SecurityX (CASP+)
1
0.8%
Cisco CCNA or CCNP
1
0.8%
CompTIA CySA+
1
0.8%
SSCP
1
0.8%

Sample. 49 of the 119 roles in Cloud Security open on 14 Nov 2026 with a full description name at least one security certification (41.2%); 17 certifications are named.

A certification counts where the description names it, required or preferred alike, by the rules of the certification pages (lib/certifications.ts): CISA, also a US government agency, counts only beside another certification's name. A description naming several counts for each.

A specialty's figure is shown when its described roles outweigh the average of the specialties (20.3 described roles: the weight of every specialty's shares of each certification, fitted on their own counts).

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, The Cloud Security Job Market, live data.

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Specialty
Each role is classified from its title and description into one of the 10 security specialties this site tracks (Security Operations & Incident Response, Security Engineering, Cloud Security, Application & Product Security, Identity & Access Management, Penetration Testing & Red Team, Threat Intelligence & Security Research, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Security Architecture & Consulting, Security Leadership). Every specialty links to its own page.
Open role
A role listed by a given day and still on its employer's board that day.
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A role that first appeared during the window on an employer already tracked before that week. An employer's first week in this dataset is its back catalogue (the roles it already had up) and is not counted as new. When this site changes how it reads an employer's board (a page or department read too, a relevance rule changed), the roles that came into view or left it from that change to the end of its week are this site's reading, not the employer's hiring: they are not new listings or removals, and changes in open roles are measured like for like across it. Each employer's report says what changed.
Removed listing
A role that left its employer's board during the window, other than with a change in how this site reads the board (see New listing).
HHI
Herfindahl-Hirschman Index: the sum of every employer's squared percentage share of open roles, 0 to 10,000. Under 1,500 unconcentrated, 1,500 to 2,500 moderately, above 2,500 highly concentrated.
Advertised pay
The pay a posting publishes, on one scale: a year's pay in US dollars (the middle of a stated range; an hourly rate counts as 2,080 hours, a monthly one as 12 months). Pay in another currency is kept in that currency and left out of these medians. Counted once per distinct figure, as the job board counts it. Typical pay is the span from the 25th percentile of range midpoints to the 90th percentile of range tops, every figure taken as a full-time year (an hourly rate times 2,080 hours), stated from 3 distinct figures.
Clicks per open role a week
Apply clicks on CyberJobs.cc on a specific role, divided by the days the roles were open, times 7.
Demand index
Clicks per open role a week divided by the same rate across every role on the site. Above 1, the roles draw more applicants than the average role.
Where it is open
Read from each posting's location text and, where that names no country, from what the posting's own description states: open to applicants anywhere (remote worldwide), worldwide except listed countries, only listed countries (the country or countries the role is based in or hires from), or no rule stated.
Window
Live: the last 28 complete days, in UTC, and the last twelve complete ISO weeks (from the week of 11 Nov 2026 at the earliest) for the weekly series. Edition: one calendar month, in UTC, and its weeks.

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  • Employers that hire without a public job board, or post only on LinkedIn or through recruiters, are not counted; government agencies and most staffing firms are not read.
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  • The weekly series and the new and removed listings appear once the board has six weeks of its own history (from 28 Dec 2026): in its first weeks the removals include roles this site's own relevance rules took off the board, and the first week is every employer's back catalogue.
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CyberJobs.cc (2026). The Cloud Security Job Market (live data, 11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026). https://cyberjobs.cc/research/cloud-security-job-market (accessed 15 Nov 2026)

BibTeX

@misc{cyberjobscc_cloud_security_job_market_live,
  author = {{CyberJobs.cc}},
  title = {The Cloud Security Job Market (live data, 11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://cyberjobs.cc/research/cloud-security-job-market}},
  note = {Accessed 15 Nov 2026},
}
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