According to security and IT workforce management software supplier CyberSN, security expert was the most prevalent title in job listings in 2024. Between January 2022 and December 2024, it was made its report,” U.S. Cybersecurity Job Posting Data,” by combining work messages from 30 big job sites and Fortune 500 company job sites. The document details which hiring patterns are changing, which are in decline, and which are growing.
Job seekers looking for a safety engineer and security analyst had a lot of choices.
The ten most popular positions posted in 2024 were:
- Security engineer ( 64, 300 positions posted )
- researcher of safety ( 45, 496 posted jobs )
- DevSecOps ( 36, 020 posted jobs )
- ( 22 of 456 positions posted ) Cybersecurity/Privacy Attorney
- Security Architect ( 22 of the 246 positions held )
- Security Manager ( 17 of the 975 positions that were posted )
- ( 12 of the 223 positions posted ): Identity and Access Management Engineer
- Cybersecurity Specialist ( 8 of the 221 positions held )
- ( 8 of the 187 positions held ) Cyber Risk Analyst
- Incident Responder ( 7 of the 639 positions advertised )
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Companies are increasing their job comments for dark staff officers and digital attorneys.
You’re in luck if you have both legal and cybersecurity experience: In 2024, demand for cybersecurity/privacy attorneys increased by 40 % from 2023 to 2024, and by 19 % from 2022 to 2024.
Red teamer, security sales engineer, cybersecurity danger intelligence analyst, and cybersecurity specialist were different positions that saw significant increases year over year. The next functions increased the most between 2022 and 2024, for a more in-depth search:
- Reverse engineer and malware scientist
- Attorney for cybersecurity and privacy
- Technical contributor for security
- professional in security
- Chief data security official
Jobs in identity and access management, applications engineering, and slowed in 2024
In contrast, the positions held by security direct and sky security expert have considerably decreased since 2022. The work names saw the most job listings decline the most between 2023 and 2024:
- application engineer for security
- Engineer responsible for identity and access management
- Security is the leader
- expert for cloud safety
- researcher of safety
Product safety engineers and DevSecOps positions total drop from 2022 to 2024, but a humble rise from 2023 to 2024 may indicate a return to rise.
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The trend that seems likely to change in the United States was attributed to employment trends in 2022 to 2024 by Dom Glavach, general safety and technology agent at CyberSN.
AI appears to be having an impact on hiring patterns.  ,
According to Glavach,” the decreases in security engineer, security analyst, and devSecOps job postings are signaling an industry-wide shift toward AI-powered security automation and internal security operations optimizations.”
Over the past three years, the number of job postings for security engineers, security analysts, and DevSecOps has decreased, but they continue to be included in the list of the top five most sought-after positions.
According to Deidre Diamond, founder and CEO of CyberSN,” Our Cyber Workforce Risk Management Practice places the need to address workforce gaps and talent retention” at the top of their list.
