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Cybersecurity Jobs

Find the role that fits
your skills

Cybersecurity is not one job. It is a set of related roles — detection, engineering, cloud, testing, response, governance — each hiring for a different mix of skills.

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The market

What cybersecurity jobs are available right now?

Cybersecurity jobs fall into six broad families: security operations and monitoring, security engineering, cloud security, offensive security and testing, incident response, and governance, risk and compliance. Most people enter through security operations or an adjacent IT role, then specialise. Employers hire across all six at entry, mid and senior level.

The cybersecurity job market is wider than the security operations centre, and that matters if you are trying to work out where you fit. A network engineer, a systems administrator, a developer, an auditor and a support technician all have transferable ground to stand on — they just land in different parts of the map.

By role

Types of cybersecurity jobs

Each role below has a canonical QuickStart role guide. What follows is the short version, plus the part most job descriptions leave implicit: the specific skills a hiring team will test you on.

Types of cybersecurity jobs
Role What you would actually do Skills employers test
SOC Analyst What you would actually do Monitor alerts, triage incidents and escalate real threats in a security operations centre. Skills employers test Log analysis, SIEM, threat detection, incident triage, alert tuning
Security Engineer What you would actually do Build and maintain the controls that protect systems — firewalls, identity, endpoint, network architecture. Skills employers test Network security, IAM, endpoint hardening, automation and scripting
Cloud Security Engineer What you would actually do Secure workloads and identities across cloud platforms; find and fix misconfiguration before an attacker does. Skills employers test IAM, cloud security posture management, container and workload security, zero trust
Penetration Tester What you would actually do Test systems and applications the way an attacker would, then document what you found and how to fix it. Skills employers test Vulnerability assessment, exploitation techniques, web and network testing, reporting
Incident Responder What you would actually do Take over when something has gone wrong — contain, investigate, recover, and write up the lessons. Skills employers test Digital forensics, containment and eradication, malware triage, incident documentation
GRC Analyst What you would actually do Map controls to frameworks, run audits and evidence compliance across the business. Skills employers test Risk assessment, control frameworks, audit evidence, policy and reporting
Threat Hunter What you would actually do Search proactively for adversary activity that automated detection has missed. Skills employers test Hypothesis-driven hunting, adversary tradecraft, detection engineering, data analysis

Skills-based hiring

What employers really check

Job adverts list degrees, years and certifications because those are easy to filter on. They are proxies.

  • Evidence over résumés

    Employers assess capability directly — through skills assessments, hands-on exercises and verified evidence of what a candidate has actually done.

  • Certifications: a signal, not the whole story

    Security+ tells an employer you have covered a defined body of knowledge. It does not tell them whether you can work a real alert queue.

  • What a Skills Wallet does

    Your verified cybersecurity profile in one place: skills, assessments and labs, certifications, experience, target role. Free, and opt-in to employer visibility.

What it pays

How much do cybersecurity jobs pay?

Cybersecurity pay varies more by role, level, sector and location than by job title alone — a cloud security engineer and a GRC analyst at the same level of seniority can sit a long way apart. Rather than reproduce ranges here, we maintain a dedicated salary picture that breaks pay down by role and level, and a full salary guide for negotiation context.

The skills-based route

How to get a cybersecurity job

The order matters. Most job-search advice starts at the CV. This starts at the evidence, because in a skills-based market the evidence is what the CV is trying to stand in for.

  1. Step 1

    Work out which role fits

    The free Cyber Career Assessment reads your background against real cyber roles.

  2. Step 2

    Build your Skills Wallet

    Skills, certifications, experience and assessment results in one verified profile.

  3. Step 3

    See the gap

    Usually two or three skills, not a career’s worth.

  4. Step 4

    Close the gap

    A learning path or bootcamp built around the skills you are missing, with hands-on labs.

  5. Step 5

    Prove it, then get matched

    Verified skills sit where employers hiring on skills can see them.

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Browse by type

Find cybersecurity jobs by type

Looking for something more specific? These pages go deeper than this one can.

Cybersecurity roles group into six families: security operations (SOC analyst, threat hunter), security engineering, cloud security, offensive security and testing, incident response, and governance, risk and compliance. Each hires for a different skill mix, and the boundaries between them are more porous than the job titles suggest.
There is no single required qualification. Many employers use a certification such as Security+ as a baseline screen, and some roles ask for a degree, but the deciding factor in a skills-based process is demonstrated capability — verified skills, hands-on evidence and assessment results that show you can do the work.
Start by proving skills rather than waiting for permission to acquire them: assess where you stand, build a verified profile, close the specific gaps with hands-on training, and apply to genuine entry-level roles.
Demand for cybersecurity skills remains strong across sectors, with persistent shortages reported in public workforce data. For current figures, see the national cyber workforce data published by NICE and CyberSeek, and our own Cyber Workforce Index.
Three things: a free assessment that tells you which role fits, a free Skills Wallet that turns your skills into verified, employer-visible evidence, and a matching layer that connects that evidence to employers hiring on skills. If there is a gap between where you are and where you want to be, we can help you close it with a learning path built around that specific gap.

Frequently asked questions

Cybersecurity job FAQs

Clear answers on roles, requirements, demand and how QuickStart helps.

Your next step

Your skills already qualify you for more than you think

Build a free Skills Wallet, see which cybersecurity jobs match the skills you hold, and find out
exactly what stands between you and the ones that do not — yet.

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