How Cybersecurity Job Applications Work

Method and definitions

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. The application form of every open role whose applicant-tracking system publishes one. Every figure is computed by one database query over the window shown, the same query for the live report and for every edition. Each figure states its sample beneath it.

Coverage

The employers whose public job boards CyberJobs.cc reads in full every hour, from 11 Nov 2026. Each figure states how many were read.

Application form

The fields an applicant fills in on the employer's own application page, read from its applicant-tracking system. Required: the form will not submit without the field.

Window

Live: the last 28 complete days, in UTC. Edition: one calendar month, in UTC.

What this data cannot tell you

• 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.
• A listing is not a hire. Some employers keep a role open for months, and some post one listing per city or country.
• Some systems ask further questions after the first page or by email; only the published form is read.

How the job feeds are read and roles are classified: site methodology. How fresh, complete and consistent the data is, checked every day: data quality and coverage.

Editions

The live report covers the last 28 complete days and changes every day. Each complete month is also published as an edition, frozen two days after the month ends, so a figure you cite from an edition never moves.

• Live data (this page)Last 28 complete days, recomputed daily

Cite and reuse

Free to quote, chart and republish under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) with a link to this page. Live figures change daily: cite a monthly edition for numbers that will read the same later, or keep the access date.

@misc{cyberjobscc_how_cybersecurity_job_applications_work_live,
  author = {{CyberJobs.cc}},
  title = {How Cybersecurity Job Applications Work (live data, 11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://cyberjobs.cc/research/how-cybersecurity-job-applications-work}},
  note = {Accessed 15 Nov 2026},
}

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