Cybersecurity in IT — global market
Cybersecurity engineers protect infrastructure and products: incident monitoring and response (SOC), penetration testing, application and cloud security, access management. Zorky currently tracks 14 432 open tech jobs in Cybersecurity; the leading countries are the US (51%), Poland (11%), Singapore (10%) and the UK (9%). The most common directions are security, DevOps, architecture and data. Below: the technologies and roles employers in this industry ask for, and what to learn on top of the stack to get hired.
Salary distribution
The distribution uses postings with an explicit salary; there are fewer of them than all postings in the industry.
Hiring geography
The US leads by the number of openings in this industry. Shares count postings with an identified country; remote positions are often open to candidates elsewhere.
Industry tech stack
Postings in this industry most often name Python, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and GCP. The number next to each technology is how many postings mention it.
Who's hired
The industry hires more than developers: the top directions are security, DevOps, architecture and data.
What to know to work in Cybersecurity
Much of the stack is shared across industries. What sets this one apart is the domain knowledge interviewers expect:
- networking and protocols at packet level, Linux and Windows internals
- the OWASP Top 10 and secure development
- SIEM, log analysis and detection rules
- cloud security: IAM, segmentation, secrets management
- MITRE ATT&CK, NIST and ISO 27001 frameworks