DATA FROM ROLIVA JOB LISTINGS

Most-mentioned skills in Security engineer job listings — October 2026

Based on 44 current security engineer listings from 17 employers, counted on 4 October 2026.

At a glance

Listings counted44open in the last 30 days
Employers17careers pages read by ROLIVA
Countries10stated by employers
As of4 October 2026recounted daily

AWS is the most-mentioned skill: 55% of these listings (24 of 44) mention it.

Most-mentioned skills

Share of 44 security engineer listings that mention each skill, October 2026 (as of 4 October 2026)
RankSkillListingsShare
1AWS24 of 4455%
2Python20 of 4445%
3Azure13 of 4430%
4GCP10 of 4423%
5Terraform9 of 4420%
6Java5 of 4411%
7JavaScript5 of 4411%
8LLM5 of 4411%
9Jira4 of 449%
10Kubernetes4 of 449%
11Docker2 of 445%
12TypeScript2 of 445%
13Airflow1 of 442%
14BigQuery1 of 442%
15C++1 of 442%
16Figma1 of 442%
17Kafka1 of 442%
18Machine learning1 of 442%
19Node.js1 of 442%
20Power BI1 of 442%
21PyTorch1 of 442%
22React1 of 442%
23Spark1 of 442%
24SQL1 of 442%
25TensorFlow1 of 442%

25 tracked terms appear in none of these listings. No earlier month is stored yet, so there is no change column.

Where these listings are

Country stated in the employer’s structured posting data
CountryListingsShare
United States1739%
India818%
China511%
Brazil37%
Spain25%
United Kingdom12%
Hong Kong SAR China12%
Lithuania12%
Mexico12%
Taiwan12%

4 listings state no country in structured data. 3 listings are remote as stated by the employer.

Method

Source: job listings on ROLIVA, which are read from employers’ own careers pages. Only listings confirmed open in the 30 days before the count are included. A listing belongs to this role when its job title matches the same fixed title patterns used for the security engineer jobs page.

How skills were detected: each listing’s description (up to the first 20,000 characters) and any skills the employer lists in structured posting data are matched against a fixed list of 50 skill and tool terms, on whole words. Excel, React, Swift, Spark, Agile are also ordinary English words, so they are counted only in their capitalised product form. A listing counts once per term, however often it repeats it. A mention is not necessarily a requirement, and skills outside the list are not counted.

Timing: the count is repeated daily and this page shows the latest one; the figure kept for each month is the last count taken in that month. Month-to-month changes compare the share of listings, not raw counts, because the number of listings changes.

Limits: these are ROLIVA’s listings only — the employers whose careers pages ROLIVA reads, weighted towards the countries shown above — not the whole job market.

Terms tracked: SQL, Python, Excel, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Jira, Confluence, Figma, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Java, Kotlin, Swift, C++, Rust, Scala, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Machine learning, A/B testing, Agile, Scrum, Stakeholder management, User research, Process mapping, BPMN, UML, Roadmapping, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM, Go-to-market.

How to cite

ROLIVA, “Most-mentioned skills in Security engineer job listings — October 2026”, https://rolivajobs.com/insights/skills/security-engineer (data as of 4 October 2026).

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