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Who Looks for Cybersecurity Jobs

2,183 people were looking for security jobs on CyberJobs.cc by 14 Nov 2026, the most of them in India and the United States; 3% of those whose credential is known hold a professional certification and 27% a master's degree as their highest, and the specialty the most of them looked at was Security Engineering.

Data window
11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026
4 days, UTC
Computed
15 Nov 2026, 14:41 UTC
Recomputed every day
Source
Member profiles on CyberJobs.cc, aggregated with a privacy floor.
Method
Version 1. Definitions
CC BY 4.0, how to cite

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people looking for security jobs on CyberJobs.cc by 14 Nov 2026
2,183
of those whose credential is known hold a professional certification
3%
are in the United States
11%

Key findings

  1. 1

    From 11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026, the most members opened roles in Security Engineering (501 members), Application & Product Security (487) and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) (294).

    Figure 1
  2. 2

    Of the members checked against a specialty's roles, those checked for Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) most often had one they strongly fit (35%), and those checked for Threat Intelligence & Security Research least often (1%).

    Figure 1
  3. 3

    Of the 2,093 members whose credential is known, 3% hold a professional certification, 1% a doctorate and 27% a master's degree as their highest.

    Figure 2
  4. 4

    The most members are in India (644), the United States (235), Pakistan (157), Türkiye (118) and Canada (91), of 88 countries.

    Figure 3
  5. 5

    89% of the members gave the site their CV to be matched with roles and 7% their LinkedIn profile; the rest described their work in their own words.

    Figure 4

Figure 1

People looking for security jobs, by specialty

Which security specialties do the people looking for security jobs look at, and in which do they most often fit a role?

SpecialtyMembers who opened a roleMembers checked against its rolesStrong fit, share of members checked
Security Engineering
501
1,60618.2%
Application & Product Security
487
1,83516.1%
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
294
1,06534.9%
Security Operations & Incident Response
150
1,39823.7%
Cloud Security
96
7857.0%
Penetration Testing & Red Team
93
1,7778.8%
Security Leadership
56
68010.3%
Identity & Access Management
38
4537.9%
Security Architecture & Consulting
35
4785.0%
Threat Intelligence & Security Research
28
1,8761.0%

Sample. Members who opened a security role or were checked against one 11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026, of the 2,183 people with a profile on CyberJobs.cc by the end of 14 Nov 2026.

A member's profile records no security specialty: the site reads their work from their LinkedIn profile, their CV or their own description to check it against roles. So a member is counted in a specialty when they opened one of its roles on the site, or were checked against one, in the window; one member can count in several specialties, so the rows do not add up to the members.

Members with a strong fit: the members the site's fit check found a strong fit for at least one role of the specialty.

Rows with fewer than 10.7 members checked are marked as a small sample and not ranked: below that the average of the rows weighs more than a row's own members checked (the weight fitted on the rows' own counts).

No count below 3 people is shown, nor any share that would reveal one, so no figure can point at a person; a group too small to show on its own is counted in "Other".

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, Who Looks for Cybersecurity Jobs, live data.

Figure 2

The highest credential they hold

How many of the people looking for security jobs hold a professional certification, a doctorate or a master's degree?

Highest credentialMembersShare of membersShare where known
Professional certification
56
2.6%2.7%
Doctorate (PhD)
14
0.6%0.7%
Master's degree
570
26.1%27.2%
None of these
1,453
66.6%69.4%
Not known
90
4.1%n/a

Sample. 2,183 people with a profile on CyberJobs.cc by the end of 14 Nov 2026; 2,093 of them with a known credential.

Each member counts once, at the highest they hold in this order: a professional certification (a security certification such as CISSP, OSCP or GIAC, or a professional licence), then a research doctorate, then a master's degree. A bachelor's degree is not recorded apart, so None of these holds the members with a bachelor's degree as well as those with no degree.

A credential is what the member stated on the site, else what they gave the candidate pool, else what their profile shows; Not known is a member for whom none of these says.

No count below 3 people is shown, nor any share that would reveal one, so no figure can point at a person; a group too small to show on its own is counted in "Other".

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, Who Looks for Cybersecurity Jobs, live data.

Figure 3

Where they are

In which countries are the people looking for security jobs?

CountryMembersShare
IndiaSmall sample
644
29.5%
United StatesSmall sample
235
10.8%
PakistanSmall sample
157
7.2%
TürkiyeSmall sample
118
5.4%
CanadaSmall sample
91
4.2%
United Arab EmiratesSmall sample
76
3.5%
South AfricaSmall sample
75
3.4%
BangladeshSmall sample
57
2.6%
PhilippinesSmall sample
48
2.2%
ColombiaSmall sample
46
2.1%
PolandSmall sample
45
2.1%
SpainSmall sample
41
1.9%
RomaniaSmall sample
39
1.8%
AustraliaSmall sample
32
1.5%
PortugalSmall sample
28
1.3%
GreeceSmall sample
26
1.2%
MalaysiaSmall sample
26
1.2%
SingaporeSmall sample
24
1.1%
SwitzerlandSmall sample
19
0.9%
FranceSmall sample
19
0.9%
PeruSmall sample
18
0.8%
United KingdomSmall sample
16
0.7%
BrazilSmall sample
15
0.7%
ChileSmall sample
15
0.7%
SwedenSmall sample
15
0.7%
NigeriaSmall sample
13
0.6%
BelgiumSmall sample
12
0.5%
GermanySmall sample
12
0.5%
VietnamSmall sample
11
0.5%
DenmarkSmall sample
10
0.5%
AustriaSmall sample
9
0.4%
CzechiaSmall sample
9
0.4%
Sri LankaSmall sample
9
0.4%
MexicoSmall sample
9
0.4%
ItalySmall sample
8
0.4%
South KoreaSmall sample
8
0.4%
NorwaySmall sample
8
0.4%
EgyptSmall sample
7
0.3%
IrelandSmall sample
7
0.3%
JapanSmall sample
7
0.3%
Saudi ArabiaSmall sample
7
0.3%
FinlandSmall sample
6
0.3%
KenyaSmall sample
6
0.3%
MoroccoSmall sample
6
0.3%
NetherlandsSmall sample
6
0.3%
IndonesiaSmall sample
5
0.2%
JordanSmall sample
5
0.2%
New ZealandSmall sample
5
0.2%
TaiwanSmall sample
5
0.2%
ArgentinaSmall sample
3
0.1%

The other 9 rows, in the same order (every value of every row is in the report's data, sent by email):

Georgia, Ghana, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Qatar, Thailand, Tunisia, Other countries (30)

Sample. 2,183 people with a profile on CyberJobs.cc by the end of 14 Nov 2026, in 88 countries.

A member's country is the one their profile gives, else the candidate pool's, else their profile reading's, else the country they visit the site from.

Professional certification is a share of the country's members whose credential is known.

Every row is marked as a small sample: the rows differ no more than chance makes them, so none reads on its own and none is ranked.

No count below 3 people is shown, nor any share that would reveal one, so no figure can point at a person; a group too small to show on its own is counted in "Other".

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, Who Looks for Cybersecurity Jobs, live data.

Figure 4

How they describe their work

Do the people looking for security jobs show a LinkedIn profile, a CV or their own description?

Profile read fromMembersShareProfessional certification
Their LinkedIn profile
158
7.2%2.6%
Their CV
1,945
89.1%2.7%
Their own description
80
3.7%n/a

Sample. 2,183 people with a profile on CyberJobs.cc by the end of 14 Nov 2026.

A member gives the site one of the three when they make their profile; the site reads it to match them with roles. Professional certification is a share of the members whose credential is known.

No count below 3 people is shown, nor any share that would reveal one, so no figure can point at a person; a group too small to show on its own is counted in "Other".

Source. CyberJobs.cc Research, Who Looks for Cybersecurity Jobs, live data.

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Method and definitions

Member profiles on CyberJobs.cc, aggregated with a privacy floor. 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.

Member
A person with a profile on CyberJobs.cc by the end of the window; this site's own team is left out.
Window
Live: the last 28 complete days, in UTC. Edition: one calendar month, in UTC.

What this data cannot tell you

  • Members are the people who made a profile on CyberJobs.cc; they are not a sample of every security job seeker, and the countries they come from follow where the site was found first.
  • Profiles say what a person chose to write; a fit check reads that profile against the posting, never a CV it was not given.

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CyberJobs.cc (2026). Who Looks for Cybersecurity Jobs (live data, 11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026). https://cyberjobs.cc/research/who-looks-for-cybersecurity-jobs (accessed 15 Nov 2026)

BibTeX

@misc{cyberjobscc_who_looks_for_cybersecurity_jobs_live,
  author = {{CyberJobs.cc}},
  title = {Who Looks for Cybersecurity Jobs (live data, 11 Nov 2026 to 14 Nov 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://cyberjobs.cc/research/who-looks-for-cybersecurity-jobs}},
  note = {Accessed 15 Nov 2026},
}
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