AI and cybersecurity hiring in India
What employers are asking for right now, built from the roles CyBe Hiring Pulse finds on employer career pages every day. Use it to pick a category, see which skills travel across roles, and plan what to learn first. Updated 14 Oct 2026.
- 194 open roles across 14 categories from 141 companies, tracked since 14 Oct 2026.
- Security Analyst (General) has the most open roles right now (44 of 194).
- Security monitoring is the most requested tracked skill, named in 31 postings.
- Bangalore leads on location with 57 roles.
Open roles per category
Where the roles are, by career track. About 5% of open roles say entry-level in the title.
- Security Analyst (General)44
Titles saying entry-level: 7%
- AI / ML Engineering31
Titles saying entry-level: 0%
- Application Security24
Titles saying entry-level: 0%
- GRC & Compliance18
Titles saying entry-level: 17%
- SOC / Detection16
Titles saying entry-level: 6%
- Security Leadership14
Titles saying entry-level: 7%
- Identity & Access11
Titles saying entry-level: 0%
- AI Governance10
Titles saying entry-level: 0%
- Security Consulting & Sales9
Early data
- Cloud Security7
Early data
- Security Engineering5
Early data
- AI Security2
Early data
- Pentest / Red Team2
Early data
- Other Security1
Early data
Skills employers ask for
Counted across open postings. Skills come from the list CyBe tracks, so this ranks the tracked skills rather than every word in every posting.
Most requested
- Security monitoring31 · 16%
- Identity and access management25 · 13%
- Security compliance20 · 10%
- Incident response19 · 10%
- Cloud security fundamentals18 · 9%
- Vulnerability assessment17 · 9%
- AI governance frameworks13 · 7%
- Alert triage11 · 6%
- Network security basics11 · 6%
- Threat detection11 · 6%
- Endpoint security10 · 5%
- SIEM9 · 5%
- Responsible AI principles5 · 3%
- AI risk assessment3 · 2%
- Third-party AI risk3 · 2%
Skills that repeat across categories
Asked for in at least 5 postings in each of 3 or more categories. Learn these first, they travel.
No skill clears that bar yet. This fills in as more roles are tracked.
Skills that travel together
Pick a skill to see what else those roles ask for.
Of 31 open roles that name Security monitoring, the share that also name:
- Cloud security fundamentals35 · %
- Incident response35 · %
- Threat detection26 · %
- Vulnerability assessment26 · %
- Network security basics23 · %
Where, who and how much
Top cities
- Bangalore57
- Hyderabad18
- Pune11
- Chennai10
- Mumbai5
- Noida4
- Ekkaduthangal3
- Kolkata3
- Austin Town1
- Bazargate1
3 roles say remote or hybrid in the posting.
Who is hiring
- Weekday AI6
- Jobgether5
- EY4
- Nike4
- Trigent Software Private Limited4
- Cognizant3
- Glance3
- Infosys Limited3
- MyCareernet3
- PepsiCo3
Pay
Trends
New roles per week
The weekly trend appears once two weeks of data are collected (tracking since 14 Oct 2026).
Fastest-rising skills
Needs about two months of history before a rise is meaningful.
Close the gap
Where a CyBe course lines up with what these roles ask for.
A typical posting asks for 27% of the skills this course teaches, across 16 open roles.
A typical posting asks for 15% of the skills this course teaches, across 10 open roles.
2 open roles. Too early to say how closely the course matches them.