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What Security Engineer job postings ask for

Python appears in 47% of Security Engineer job postings, followed by AWS (32%) and GCP (22%) — counted across 206 live postings from company career sites.

Every term below was counted in real postings published by employers. We tally what each posting names at least once, so one keyword-stuffed listing can’t inflate a number.

Counted across 206 Security Engineer postings gathered from company career sites and seen in the last 90 days. Percentages are the share of those postings naming each term. Last verified against live postings on ; re-checked every six hours.

Skills and tools, most-asked first

  1. Python47% · 97 of 206
  2. AWS32% · 66 of 206
  3. GCP22% · 45 of 206
  4. AI22% · 45 of 206
  5. Azure20% · 41 of 206
  6. Kubernetes19% · 39 of 206
  7. Go17% · 35 of 206
  8. Siem15% · 31 of 206
  9. Terraform14% · 29 of 206
  10. Access control9% · 19 of 206
  11. Authentication9% · 19 of 206
  12. Cryptography9% · 19 of 206
  13. Edr9% · 19 of 206
  14. Java8% · 16 of 206
  15. Powershell8% · 16 of 206
  16. CI/CD8% · 16 of 206
  17. Key management8% · 16 of 206
  18. Identity management8% · 16 of 206
  19. Soar8% · 16 of 206
  20. Linux8% · 16 of 206
  21. Kubernetes security7% · 14 of 206
  22. Privacy7% · 14 of 206
  23. Inter-service authentication7% · 14 of 206
  24. Safety7% · 14 of 206
  25. Secure application frameworks7% · 14 of 206

Questions about this data

What skills do most Security Engineer job postings ask for?

Across 206 Security Engineer postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are Python (47%), AWS (32%), GCP (22%). Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once.

How common is Access control in Security Engineer postings?

Access control appears in 9% of the 206 Security Engineer postings counted — roughly 19 of them. 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 206 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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