What roles at Cybersecurity companies require at tech companies · 177 roles · 29 companies · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
177 roles counted at Cybersecurity companies, one per company, title and level; 513 postings in the window.
In short
At Cybersecurity companies, Python is required most often, in 92 of 176 (52%) roles whose requirements we read in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, then Go (69) and AWS (60). The largest group is software engineer roles: 71 of 177 (40%). We counted 177 roles at 29 companies.
- Python
- 92 of 176 (52%)
- Required most often, of the roles we could read
- Largest group
- 71 of 177 (40%)
- Software engineer
- Median stated pay
- $183.6k a year
- 72 of 177 (41%) state pay
What the postings ask for
Out of the 176 roles whose requirements we could read, of 177 in all. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 92 of 176 (52%) |
| Go | 69 of 176 (39%) |
| AWS | 60 of 176 (34%) |
| AI | 58 of 176 (33%) |
| CI/CD | 49 of 176 (28%) |
| Distributed Systems | 43 of 176 (24%) |
| Kubernetes | 43 of 176 (24%) |
| Observability | 37 of 176 (21%) |
| GCP | 35 of 176 (20%) |
| Terraform | 34 of 176 (19%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Kubernetes | 21 of 176 (12%) |
| AWS | 20 of 176 (11%) |
| Cybersecurity | 19 of 176 (11%) |
| Terraform | 17 of 176 (10%) |
| CI/CD | 16 of 176 (9%) |
| Incident Response | 15 of 176 (9%) |
| Python | 14 of 176 (8%) |
| AI | 13 of 176 (7%) |
| Docker | 13 of 176 (7%) |
| Azure | 12 of 176 (7%) |
Roles at Cybersecurity companies
By title family, each count out of the roles at Cybersecurity companies.
| Role | Roles | Of the industry's roles |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 71 | 71 of 177 (40%) |
| Security engineer | 25 | 25 of 177 (14%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 17 | 17 of 177 (10%) |
| Data engineer | 8 | 8 of 177 (5%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 8 | 8 of 177 (5%) |
| Data scientist | 7 | 7 of 177 (4%) |
| DevOps engineer | 7 | 7 of 177 (4%) |
| Platform engineer | 6 | 6 of 177 (3%) |
| Data analyst | 5 | 5 of 177 (3%) |
| QA engineer | 5 | 5 of 177 (3%) |
Companies
Experience
Of the 147 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 147 of 147 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 143 of 147 (97%)
- 3+ years
- 133 of 147 (90%)
- 5+ years
- 110 of 147 (75%)
- 8+ years
- 42 of 147 (29%)
- 10+ years
- 18 of 147 (12%)
Degree
Of the 176 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 16 of 176 (9%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 35 of 176 (20%)
- Preferred
- 7 of 176 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 118 of 176 (67%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 177 roles we could read for it
- Median stated pay
- $183.6k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 72 of 177 (41%)
- Remote roles
- 73 of 177 (41%)
How we count: 177 roles from 29 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Industry is the company's label from its job board; companies without a label are not counted here. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology