US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars
CyberSN’s Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It’s a mixed bag.
Data for CyberSN’s jobs report is aggregated from JobSpikr (with duplicates removed). The various job titles are then analyzed and assigned to CyberSN’s taxonomy of 45 cybersecurity functional roles in ten categories. The result is an assessment of the job market by skills required rather than by the recruiting companies’ role titles.
Analyzing this dataset shows the current cybersecurity skills demand. Comparing 2026 with the same months of earlier years highlights emerging (or declining) demand for specific roles.
Overall, there has been a decline in cybersecurity job postings to a new four-year low: 235,786 postings between January and September 2026 (down 26.4% from the 320,210 recorded in the same period of 2025).
While the total number of job postings has declined, there remain emerging and notable specific numbers. For example, two specific AI and...
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