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security best practices jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-09-30, security best practices appears in 466 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Software Engineer has the most postings mentioning security best practices, with demand share down 2.1% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30

Postings · last 90 days
466
Demand vs prior month
down 2.1% vs the prior 4 weeks
Top role · 20.8% of skill postings
Software Engineer
Top hiring metro
London

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Frequently asked questions about security best practices

+Is security best practices in demand in 2026?

Yes. security best practices appears in 466 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Software Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning security best practices (20.8% of all postings mentioning security best practices).

+What jobs require security best practices?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning security best practices are Success Architect (16.7% of that role’s postings mention security best practices), Technical Solution Architect (9.5% of that role’s postings mention security best practices), Information Security Advisor (9.1% of that role’s postings mention security best practices).

+What skills are commonly paired with security best practices?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), security best practices most often appears alongside AWS, CI/CD, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform.

+Where is security best practices most in demand?

As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring security best practices are London, Hyderabad, Berlin, New York City, San Francisco, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

+How can I keep up with new security best practices content and jobs?

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+Which skills come before and after security best practices?

The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.

Weekly indexed postings requiring security best practices — last 90 days

Career paths around security best practices

Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.

Historical career profiles · all locations

Skills before security best practices

Before security best practicesterraform → security best practices: 6 observed employer moves with this skill pairkubernetes → security best practices: 5 observed employer moves with this skill pairAWS → security best practices: 5 observed employer moves with this skill pairAnsible → security best practices: 4 observed employer moves with this skill pairpython → security best practices: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairGrafana → security best practices: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairdocker → security best practices: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairsql → security best practices: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairsecurity bestpracticesterraform: 6 movesterraform6 moveskubernetes: 5 moveskubernetes5 movesAWS: 5 movesAWS5 movesAnsible: 4 movesAnsible4 movespython: 3 movespython3 movesGrafana: 3 movesGrafana3 movesdocker: 3 movesdocker3 movessql: 3 movessql3 moves

Skills after security best practices

After security best practicessecurity best practices → python: 5 observed employer moves with this skill pairsecurity best practices → terraform: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairsecurity best practices → sql: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairsecurity best practices → documentation: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairsecurity best practices → risk assessments: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairsecurity best practices → Excel: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairsecurity best practices → data governance: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairsecurity best practices → Jenkins: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairsecurity bestpracticespython: 5 movespython5 movesterraform: 3 movesterraform3 movessql: 3 movessql3 movesdocumentation: 2 movesdocumentation2 movesrisk assessments: 2 movesrisk assessments2 movesExcel: 2 movesExcel2 movesdata governance: 2 movesdata governance2 movesJenkins: 2 movesJenkins2 moves
How to read this chart · view counts

Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.

The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.

Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.

Observed connections and move counts
ConnectionMoves
Before: terraform6
Before: kubernetes5
Before: AWS5
Before: Ansible4
Before: python3
Before: Grafana3
Before: docker3
Before: sql3
After: python5
After: terraform3
After: sql3
After: documentation2
After: risk assessments2
After: Excel2
After: data governance2
After: Jenkins2

Roles most likely to require security best practices

Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.

RolePostings mentioning skill% of role postings mentioning skill
Success Architect716.7%
Technical Solution Architect29.5%
Information Security Advisor29.1%
DevOps Manager26.9%
Cyber Security Architect25.9%
Platform Engineering Director15.0%
Enterprise Solution Architect14.5%
Chief Technology Officer24.3%
AI Enablement Engineer23.6%
AWS Cloud Engineer13.4%

Roles with the most security best practices postings

RolePostings mentioning skillShare of skill postings
Software Engineer9720.8%
DevOps Engineer296.2%
Backend Engineer214.5%
Security Engineer173.6%
Engineering Manager122.6%
Platform Engineer112.4%
Site Reliability Engineer102.1%
Systems Engineer102.1%
Cyber Security Engineer71.5%
Data Engineer71.5%

Top companies posting jobs requiring security best practices

Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.

Top companies posting jobs requiring security best practices
CompanyPostings · 90 days
Wise19
Stripe7
CLERA7
Salesforce6
Paypal6
Mapbox6
Simility, a Paypal Service6
Allianz5
Fifth Third Bank5
Airkit5

Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.

Top metros hiring for security best practices

NamePostingsShare
London214.5%
Hyderabad183.9%
Berlin153.2%
New York City143.0%
San Francisco102.1%
Chicago81.7%
Dublin81.7%
Reston81.7%
Singapore81.7%

Skills commonly paired with security best practices

AWS (162)CI/CD (146)Python (146)Kubernetes (131)Terraform (85)Azure (83)Docker (80)observability (80)DevOps (68)monitoring (67)

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How this was computed

Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning security best practices by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s security best practices postings by all security best practices postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.2% to 0.2%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,595 identified employers and covers 68% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-02 to 2026-08-31 and 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.

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Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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