US employers posted 235,786 cybersecurity jobs from January through September 2026. That is the lowest total for those months in the four years that staffing and workforce intelligence firm CyberSN has tracked. They pulled the listings from job data provider JobSpikr, removed duplicates and sorted each one by the security work it described.
The cyber talent shortage? Job postings just hit a four-year low
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