Security

Security reduces operational or security risk while keeping systems usable.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $2,287 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $4,017 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 563 Last 3 months
Applications per job 8.05 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 67 $1655–$4074 Incident Response 56 $2977–$4853 Information Security 52 $2509–$3630 Linux 50 $1972–$3830 Python 50 $2949–$4669 Cybersecurity 47 $1728–$4063 Security Architecture 42 $2965–$5701 Vulnerability Management 35 $3161–$4881 CI/CD 33 $2810–$4738 ISO 27001 33 $2474–$4173 Penetration Testing 32 $1828–$3949 Network Security 31 $1410–$3667 Analytics 30 $1839–$3236 EDR 30 $1509–$3950 Shell Scripting 28 $2719–$4486 OWASP TOP 10 27 $2060–$3451 Risk Assessment 27 $2400–$3665 Risk Management 27 $1891–$3520 Security Operations 27 $3204–$4440

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 ·