US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars - SecurityWeek

US cybersecurity job postings fell to a new four-year low of 235,786 between January and September 2026, down 26.4% from the same period in 2025, according to CyberSN's Cybersecurity Jobs Report. Both the total and the comparison period come from the CyberSN report.

The same dataset shows two categories moving the other way. Both are percentage changes against the prior year, published alongside the 235,786 overall posting count and its 26.4% decline. The total moved in the opposite direction to both categories, and the article's headline describes demand for AI Security Engineers as soaring.

CyberSN's report is the source of the numbers, and the figures refer to advertised positions rather than confirmed hires. The article does not attribute the decline to a specific cause, does not give the absolute number of postings behind the 268.3% and 203.5% increases, and does not break the totals down by employer, state or seniority. SecurityWeek presents the contracting total alongside the two expanding categories in a single account of the CyberSN data, covering the first nine months of 2026 against the same span of 2025.