Cybersecurity Job Postings Demand AI Skills at Record Pace

Job postings asking for AI skills in cybersecurity have more than doubled in a year, according to new research from the Cisco-founded AI Workforce Consortium. The analysis covered job postings in G7 countries between April 2024 and March 2026 and found that 28.5% of cybersecurity job postings required AI skills during this period, up from 14.2% in the same period a year earlier.

The report identified an 'agentic skill stack' as the baseline for high-volume roles such as security engineering, cloud security, and detection and response engineering. The five most commonly listed AI-related skills were Python, prompt and context engineering, AI security, agent orchestration, and machine learning operations.

Average salaries for cybersecurity jobs requiring AI skills are 14.9% higher than the median pay for all cybersecurity postings in the US. In G7 countries, the two most commonly listed roles remain Security Engineer and Cybersecurity Engineer/Analyst, but AI systems are increasingly taking over routine tasks such as triaging alerts.