Security

Security reduces operational or security risk while keeping systems usable.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $2,284 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $4,011 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 556 Last 3 months
Applications per job 7.79 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Security + Exact DOU category
$2,600 Security median
$4,000 Security Engineer median
$2.4K–$7.25K Security Engineer quartile range
118 Security jobs · June record

Hiring Use realistic incidents and trade-offs; verify hands-on depth behind policy language.

Candidate Show prevented loss, faster recovery, or safer delivery with evidence.

Data Net monthly DOU survey figures; the wider Security median and Security Engineer role median differ. Vacancies published on DOU in June 2026.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 170 respondents
Role family
Lower quartile$1212
Median$2300
Upper quartile$4350
Year over year +15.0%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

Security, cybersecurity, SOC, and penetration-testing roles · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

SIEM 68 $1666–$4064 Information Security 54 $2615–$3753 Incident Response 51 $3134–$4985 Linux 47 $1976–$3852 ISO 27001 44 $2488–$4207 Python 44 $2955–$4687 Cybersecurity 42 $1679–$4011 Security Architecture 37 $3053–$5717 EDR 36 $1484–$3998 Risk Management 33 $1916–$3489 Vulnerability Management 32 $3170–$4931 Network Security 31 $1531–$3699 Analytics 30 $1862–$3251 Security 30 $2896–$4905 CI/CD 29 $2868–$4754 OWASP TOP 10 29 $2060–$3593 Security Operations 29 $2992–$4491 Penetration Testing 28 $2050–$4014

Where to hire

Sources

  1. DevOps, SRE, Security, and SysAdmin salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Ukraine tech job market — first half of 2026 Published signal ·