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Higher education cybersecurity research, service, or teaching faculty. |\n| Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Risk management, risk assessment, IT governance, compliance, and privacy. Policy development, controls assessment, security awareness training development and implementation, disaster recovery and business continuity planning. |\n| Management | C-Suite, Director of Information Security, senior managers, cybersecurity project managers, positions where primary responsibility entails supervision of personnel and cybersecurity teams. |\n| Operations | Security operations, security analytics, log analysis, digital forensics, blue team, vulnerability and incident management, network, systems, and application scanning. |\n| Penetration Testing | Penetration testing, ethical hacking, red team, vulnerability assessment, web application testing. |\n| Software Security | DevSecOps, software development, software testing, application design, software development lifecycle, security tool development. Positions which have a heavy emphasis on application development, coding, programming, incorporating secure by design principles, code reviews, software security assessment. |\n| Threat Intelligence / Research | Collection, analysis, and reporting of cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, intelligence, and technologies. Tracking adversary groups, threat hunting. Non-academic applied or theoretical cybersecurity research positions. |\n\n|  | Highschool diploma | Associate's | Bachelor’s | Master’s | Doctoral | Positions listing education requirement | Total number of positions |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Architecture | 2.6% | 2.9% | 66.2% | 14.7% | 2.9% | 71.7% | 272 |\n| Auditing | 0.0% | 0.0% | 88.9% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 88.9% | 9 |\n| Education | 0.0% | 0.0% | 90.9% | 72.7% | 54.5% | 90.9% | 11 |\n| GRC | 1.2% | 2.4% | 69.1% | 9.7% | 1.8% | 72.7% | 165 |\n| Management | 0.0% | 0.0% | 66.0% | 20.0% | 6.0% | 66.0% | 50 |\n| Operations | 2.0% | 4.2% | 66.4% | 6.2% | 0.3% | 72.6% | 307 |\n| Penetration Testing | 2.7% | 0.0% | 64.9% | 10.8% | 2.7% | 70.3% | 37 |\n| Software\u003Cbr>Security | 0.0% | 0.0% | 55.6% | 22.2% | 2.2% | 55.6% | 45 |\n| Threat Intelligence / Research | 0.0% | 0.0% | 61.5% | 20.5% | 10.3% | 61.5% | 39 |\n\n|  | Ranking by frequency of appearance |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |\n| Architecture | CISSP | CISM | Sec+ | CEH | CCNA |\n| Auditing | CISA | CISSP | CIA | CPA | CIPT |\n| Education | Sec+ | CCNA | CISSP | CEH | CISM |\n| GRC | CISSP | CISM | CISA | Sec+ | CRISC |\n| Management | CISSP | CISM | CISA | Sec+ | GSLC |\n| Operations | CISSP | Sec+ | CEH | GIAC | CISM |\n| Penetration Testing | OSCP | CEH | GPEN | CISSP | OSCE |\n| Software Security | CISSP | CISA | Sec+ | PMP | CASP+ |\n| Threat Intelligence / Research | CISSP | GCIH | CEH | OSCP | GPEN |\n\n\n| Programming Language | Number of positions | % of positions listing a programming language (n=231) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Python | 155 | 67.1% |\n| Java | 98 | 42.4% |\n| C++ | 52 | 22.5% |\n| C | 48 | 20.8% |\n| PowerShell | 46 | 19.9% |\n| SQL | 45 | 19.5% |\n| Bash | 37 | 16.0% |\n| Ruby | 37 | 16.0% |\n| Go | 37 | 16.0% |\n| C\\# | 33 | 14.3% |\n| Perl | 30 | 12.9% |\n| PHP | 13 | 5.6% |\n| HTML | 7 | 3.0% |\n| CSS | 6 | 2.6% |\n| Rust | 5 | 2.2% |\n| R | 5 | 2.2% |","cbCaipmNdy0LwZQX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipmNdy0LwZQX","pdf",719803,14,"English","# Job Classification Categories\n## Education Level Distribution by Category\n## Certification Frequency Ranking by Category\n## Programming Language Demand Breakdown","[{\"question\":\"Which education levels dominate for cybersecurity roles in the dataset?\",\"answer\":\"Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees appear frequently across most job categories, with Bachelor’s typically leading. 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