security monitoring jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, security monitoring appears in 547 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Security Engineer has the most postings mentioning security monitoring, with demand down 10% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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+Is security monitoring in demand in 2026?
Yes. security monitoring appears in 547 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 10% vs the prior 4 weeks. Security Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning security monitoring (15.0% of all postings mentioning security monitoring).
+What jobs require security monitoring?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning security monitoring are Security Operations Analyst (23.8% of that role’s postings mention security monitoring), Security Consultant (16.1% of that role’s postings mention security monitoring), Cybersecurity Intern (14.8% of that role’s postings mention security monitoring).
+What skills are commonly paired with security monitoring?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), security monitoring most often appears alongside incident response, vulnerability management, SIEM, Cloud Security, AWS.
+Where is security monitoring most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring security monitoring are Bengaluru, London, New York City, Washington, San Francisco, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring security monitoring — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles most likely to require security monitoring
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Security Operations Analyst | 5 | 23.8% |
| Security Consultant | 5 | 16.1% |
| Cybersecurity Intern | 8 | 14.8% |
| Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) | 4 | 14.3% |
| Information Security Intern | 4 | 13.3% |
| Information Security Director | 5 | 12.8% |
| Systems Security Engineer | 9 | 12.5% |
| SOC Analyst | 3 | 12.5% |
| IT Security Engineer | 7 | 11.7% |
| Security Operations Engineer | 7 | 11.5% |
Roles with the most security monitoring postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Security Engineer | 82 | 15.0% |
| Information Security Engineer | 26 | 4.8% |
| Cybersecurity Engineer | 20 | 3.7% |
| Security Analyst | 20 | 3.7% |
| Cybersecurity Analyst | 16 | 2.9% |
| Cyber Security Engineer | 14 | 2.6% |
| Cloud Security Engineer | 13 | 2.4% |
| Network Security Engineer | 13 | 2.4% |
| Security Architect | 13 | 2.4% |
| Cyber Security Analyst | 12 | 2.2% |
Top metros hiring for security monitoring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 23 | 4.2% |
| London | 13 | 2.4% |
| New York City | 11 | 2.0% |
| Washington | 11 | 2.0% |
| San Francisco | 10 | 1.8% |
| Boston | 9 | 1.6% |
| Lone Tree | 7 | 1.3% |
| Austin | 6 | 1.1% |
| Brussels | 5 | 0.9% |
Skills commonly paired with security monitoring
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning security monitoring by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s security monitoring postings by all security monitoring postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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