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What Security Engineer job postings ask for

Python appears in 59% of Security Engineer job postings — the term employers name most often.

Counted across 429 Security Engineer postings gathered from company career sites and seen in the last 90 days. Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once. Last verified ; re-checked every six hours.

How these numbers are counted

Skills and tools, most-asked first

  1. Python59% 255 of 429
  2. AWS26% 112 of 429
  3. Go20% 84 of 429
  4. AI17% 75 of 429
  5. GCP16% 68 of 429
  6. Kubernetes14% 60 of 429
  7. Rust14% 59 of 429
  8. C++13% 56 of 429
  9. Azure13% 54 of 429
  10. Siem12% 51 of 429
  11. Terraform12% 50 of 429
  12. CI/CD11% 49 of 429
  13. SQL11% 48 of 429
  14. Linux11% 47 of 429
  15. Tcp/ip11% 46 of 429
  16. Incident response8% 36 of 429
  17. Udp8% 35 of 429
  18. C/c++8% 35 of 429
  19. Network security8% 34 of 429
  20. Cryptography7% 30 of 429
  21. LLM7% 29 of 429
  22. Bash6% 25 of 429
  23. Iso 270016% 25 of 429
  24. JavaScript6% 24 of 429
  25. Edr6% 24 of 429

Questions about this data

What skills do most Security Engineer job postings ask for?

Across 429 Security Engineer postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are Python (59%), AWS (26%), Go (20%). Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once.

How common is Siem in Security Engineer postings?

Siem appears in 12% of the 429 Security Engineer postings counted — 51 of them exactly. That places it mid-pack rather than near-universal, which is worth knowing before you rewrite a résumé around it.

Where does this Security Engineer data come from?

Public job postings published by employers on their own career sites, collected through the official Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby job-board APIs. It is a count of 429 real postings seen in the last 90 days — not a survey, an estimate, or a model's guess.

Should I add these skills to my résumé?

Only the ones you genuinely have. Frequency tells you which terms to surface and phrase in the employer's own words if they are already true of you. Adding a skill you can't defend is the fastest way to fail an interview, so FreshStartr reports gaps rather than writing them in.

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Which of these does your résumé actually evidence?

Paste a Security Engineer posting and you get a line-by-line match report: what you already prove, and what you don’t. Gaps are reported, never written in for you.

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