For the year ended Sept. 2022 employers listed close to 770K job openings for cybersecurity professionals. Security analysts, pen-testers were among top required skills. CyberSeek’s interactive map shows the states and metro regions with the greatest number of job opportunities for information security professionals.
What: CyberSeek in collaboration with CompTIA, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education at NIST and Lightcast have released a new report on the cybersecurity job market [271 word].
Here are 6 key takeaways from the report:
- For the 12-months ended Sept. 2022 employers listed a total of 769,736 openings for cybersecurity professionals or for jobs that needed cybersecurity skills. Demand for security professionals grew some 2.4 times faster than demand for all other sectors. Nine of the last 12 months had more cybersecurity job openings than at any time during the past 10 years.
- The 5 most frequently advertised job openings included: Cybersecurity Analyst; Software Developer; Penetration and Vulnerability Tester; Cybersecurity Consultant; and Network Engineer
- California and Texas were the states with the most job openings with 83,196 and 82.046 respectively. Other states in the top five were Virginia with 60,256; Florida (39,661) and New York (31,687).
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria topped the list of metro-regions with 68,982 job openings, followed by New York-Newark-Jersey City (38,448) and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (38,183)
- Many of the advertised jobs required some sort of certification. The most common were CISSP (140,998); CompTIA Security (100,198); and CISA (86,635)
- About 1.1 million people in the US were employed in cybersecurity-related jobs for the year ended September 2022.