Skills required by security jobs in Europe

Application security, infrastructure hardening and compliance. We track 246 live security roles right now, and the single most requested skill among them is AWS, named as a requirement by 31% of the classified sample.

Most requested skills

Share of 181 classified listings that name each skill as a requirement — not merely mention it.

Skills required by open security roles, most requested first
#	Skill	Share of roles	Listings
1	AWS	31%	56
2	Python	23%	41
3	Kubernetes	17%	30
4	Azure	15%	28
5	GCP	15%	27
6	Go	13%	24
7	cloud security	11%	20
8	Terraform	10%	18
9	ISO 27001	8%	15
10	SIEM	8%	14
11	penetration testing	6%	11
12	SOC 2	6%	10
13	TypeScript	6%	10
14	application security	5%	9
15	JavaScript	5%	9
16	Linux	5%	9
17	Cybersecurity	5%	9
18	IAM	5%	9
19	Security Engineering	5%	9
20	PowerShell	4%	8
21	CI/CD	4%	8
22	Java	4%	8
23	Incident Response	4%	7
24	EDR	4%	7
25	Bash	3%	6

How to read this

A share, not a ranking of importance

A skill sitting at 40% is required by two security roles in five. That does not make it four times more valuable than one at 10% — a niche requirement with few candidates can be worth more than a common one. What it does tell you is how many doors the skill opens.

Gaps are worth more than strengths

The useful question is not which of these you already have. It is which of the top few you do not — because that is the one quietly removing you from the largest number of shortlists.

Which of these are missing from your CV?

Upload it once and the same measurement runs against your own skills: which of the requirements above you already cover, which you do not, and what an applicant tracking system makes of the document before a person reads it. Free, no card.

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