CyberSN’s Cybersecurity Jobs Report gives visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It’s a blended bag.
Knowledge for CyberSN’s jobs report is aggregated from JobSpikr (with duplicates eliminated). The assorted job titles are then analyzed and assigned to CyberSN’s taxonomy of 45 cybersecurity purposeful roles in ten classes. The result’s an evaluation of the job market by abilities required slightly than by the recruiting firms’ position titles.
Analyzing this dataset reveals the present cybersecurity abilities demand. Evaluating 2026 with the identical months of earlier years highlights rising (or declining) demand for particular roles.
General, there was a decline in cybersecurity job postings to a brand new four-year low: 235,786 postings between January and September 2026 (down 26.4% from the 320,210 recorded in the identical interval of 2025).
Whereas the whole variety of job postings has declined, there stay rising and notable particular numbers. For instance, two particular AI and knowledge roles have seen dramatic development: AI Safety Engineer demand has elevated by 268.3% whereas Cyber Knowledge Scientist demand has grown 203.5% over final yr.
Clearly, the necessity for a normal understanding of synthetic intelligence stays excessive. Just below 15% of all job postings now reference AI, which is corresponding to the 15.1% recorded in the identical interval final yr. There may be, nonetheless, a noticeable improve in momentum inside the present interval (peaking at 20.0% in September 2026).
The cybersecurity capabilities that the majority reference a necessity for AI understanding embody Analysis (32.7% of postings, up 11.7 factors from final yr); Offense (23.3% of postings, up 4.8 factors); GRC (19.8% of postings, up 2.1 factors); and Plan (18.9% of postings, up 0.6 factors).
Distant working is one other space of curiosity. The highest purposeful areas embody Gross sales (32.8%), GRC (31.2%), Offense (24.7%), Product Safety (22.9%), Educate (22.8%), Analysis (21.9%), and Protection (21.3%).
Whereas there are some potential winners on this analyzed interval, the general decline in numbers means there are extra potential losers. Main the lack of roles is Cyber Insider Risk Analyst (down by 55.6% to 1,088 postings); Cyber Danger Analyst (down by 51.5% to 4,031 postings); Penetration Tester (down by 45.9% to three,063 postings); Cybersecurity Lead (down by 41.0% to 4,688 postings); Risk Hunter (down by 40.0% to 1,013 postings); Cybersecurity Venture Supervisor (down by 39.4% to 783 postings); and Chief Info Safety Officer together with CSO, BSO and ISO (down by 38.9% to 2,832 postings).
A lot of the CISO decline displays an unusually sturdy 2025, because the 2026 determine (2,832) is sort of precisely the identical as 2024’s (2,808), and CISO postings rose 19.5% from Q2 to Q3.
The report focuses on the numbers of job listings slightly than any particular intent to grasp the reason for any change. This can be a ‘what’ not ‘why’ report. “Job titles are noisy,” it declares. “This report reads each posting by the CyberSN Taxonomy, so demand is counted by the work being requested for, not by the title on the itemizing.”
However, just a few attainable indications across the extra generally acknowledged job titles will be discovered. For instance, for management and CISO positions, the report feedback, “director and CISO postings transfer with how boards are treating cyber accountability.”
General, it’s tough to attract particular employment potential indications from CyberSN’s figures on job listings, however an AI safety specialist could also be in luck. Budding CISOs could must be affected person.
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