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Data as of November 2, 2026

Security

Threat modeling is in 24% of these roles, vs. 2% across tech.

The skills employers mention most in open security roles, and how each compares with tech as a whole.

Open roles
297
Companies hiring
33
New in the last 7 days
28
Listed as remote
At least 27%

What sets this apart

  1. +21 Threat modeling 24% here, 2% overall
  2. +13 Go 40% here, 27% overall
  3. +12 SIEM 14% here, 2% overall
  4. +12 Vulnerability management 14% here, 2% overall

Percentage points above the share of all tech roles.

Most requested

  • Share of these roles
  • Furthest above tech overall
  • Share across all tech roles
Share of open security roles and of companies mentioning each skill
Skill Share of roles, as a bar % of roles % of companies
Python 162 of 297 roles · 31 of 33 companies · 51% across all tech roles 54% 94%
Go 120 of 297 roles · 28 of 33 companies · 27% across all tech roles 40%+13 pts 85%
AWS 106 of 297 roles · 26 of 33 companies · 27% across all tech roles 36% 79%
Kubernetes 87 of 297 roles · 24 of 33 companies · 21% across all tech roles 29% 73%
GCP 79 of 297 roles · 23 of 33 companies · 20% across all tech roles 27% 70%
Azure 72 of 297 roles · 18 of 33 companies · 20% across all tech roles 24% 54%
Threat modeling 70 of 297 roles · 23 of 33 companies · 2% across all tech roles 24%+21 pts 70%
CI/CD 62 of 297 roles · 24 of 33 companies · 17% across all tech roles 21% 73%
LLMs 57 of 297 roles · 22 of 33 companies · 19% across all tech roles 19% 67%
Terraform 55 of 297 roles · 20 of 33 companies · 10% across all tech roles 18% 61%
Rust 52 of 297 roles · 10 of 33 companies · 14% across all tech roles 18% 30%
Linux 50 of 297 roles · 20 of 33 companies · 10% across all tech roles 17% 61%
C++ 48 of 297 roles · 14 of 33 companies · 24% across all tech roles 16% 42%
Java 42 of 297 roles · 16 of 33 companies · 20% across all tech roles 14% 48%
SIEM 42 of 297 roles · 16 of 33 companies · 2% across all tech roles 14%+12 pts 48%
SQL 41 of 297 roles · 15 of 33 companies · 19% across all tech roles 14% 46%
Vulnerability management 41 of 297 roles · 20 of 33 companies · 2% across all tech roles 14%+12 pts 61%
NIST 40 of 297 roles · 15 of 33 companies · 2% across all tech roles 14% 46%
SOC 2 39 of 297 roles · 15 of 33 companies · 3% across all tech roles 13% 46%
Penetration testing 36 of 297 roles · 19 of 33 companies · 1% across all tech roles 12% 58%
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SkillCategoryRoles% of rolesCompanies% of companies
PythonLanguages16254.5%3194%
GoLanguages12040.4%2885%
AWSCloud10635.7%2679%
KubernetesInfrastructure8729.3%2473%
GCPCloud7926.6%2370%
AzureCloud7224.2%1854%
Threat modelingSecurity7023.6%2370%
CI/CDInfrastructure6220.9%2473%
LLMsAI/ML5719.2%2267%
TerraformInfrastructure5518.5%2061%
RustLanguages5217.5%1030%
LinuxInfrastructure5016.8%2061%
C++Languages4816.2%1442%
JavaLanguages4214.1%1648%
SIEMSecurity4214.1%1648%
SQLLanguages4113.8%1546%
Vulnerability managementSecurity4113.8%2061%
NISTSecurity4013.5%1546%
SOC 2Security3913.1%1546%
Penetration testingSecurity3612.1%1958%
FedRAMPSecurity3511.8%1339%
ISO 27001Security299.8%1236%
TypeScriptLanguages289.4%1339%
OAuthIdentity268.8%1546%
Zero trustSecurity258.4%1339%
OWASPSecurity237.7%1236%
RBACIdentity237.7%1133%
SAMLIdentity237.7%1339%
OIDCIdentity196.4%1236%
JavaScriptLanguages186.1%1339%
BashLanguages165.4%1236%
KafkaData134.4%515%
SCIMIdentity134.4%1030%
DockerInfrastructure124.0%824%
RubyLanguages124.0%412%
ReactWeb113.7%721%
SSOIdentity113.7%824%
AnsibleInfrastructure103.4%515%
SparkData103.4%412%
Node.jsWeb93.0%515%
PostgreSQLDatabases93.0%412%
SplunkObservability93.0%721%
C#Languages82.7%26%
OktaIdentity82.7%824%
PowerShellLanguages82.7%618%
DatabricksData72.4%26%
GitInfrastructure72.4%515%
gRPCWeb72.4%412%
CrowdStrikeSecurity62.0%618%
GitHub ActionsInfrastructure62.0%618%
RLanguages51.7%412%
RedisDatabases51.7%26%
ScalaLanguages51.7%412%
SnowflakeData51.7%39%
A/B testingAnalytics41.3%26%
Active DirectoryIdentity41.3%39%
ClickHouseDatabases41.3%13%
ElasticsearchDatabases41.3%412%
GrafanaObservability41.3%13%
RAGAI/ML41.3%39%
.NETLanguages31.0%26%
HelmInfrastructure31.0%26%
JamfIdentity31.0%39%
JenkinsInfrastructure31.0%39%
PrometheusObservability31.0%13%
ArgoInfrastructure20.7%26%
Data modelingData20.7%13%
Entra IDIdentity20.7%26%
ExcelAnalytics20.7%26%
KotlinLanguages20.7%13%
LangChainAI/ML20.7%13%
MySQLDatabases20.7%26%
PyTorchAI/ML20.7%26%
TensorFlowAI/ML20.7%26%
AirflowData10.3%13%
BigQueryData10.3%13%
ETL/ELTData10.3%13%
GraphQLWeb10.3%13%
Hugging FaceAI/ML10.3%13%
IstioInfrastructure10.3%13%
OpenTelemetryObservability10.3%13%
PandasData10.3%13%
RedshiftData10.3%13%
SwiftLanguages10.3%13%
VueWeb10.3%13%

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