Finding Where Jobs are Located
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on November 1, 2016 announced the release of CyberSeek, an interactive map that shows cybersecurity job availability by both state and locality (http://cyberseek.org). This interactive tool will assist students, employees, employers, policy makers, training providers and guidance counselors in exploring opportunities they may have never considered. The map uses data collected by the analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies and from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to determine job availability and job fulfillment in certain areas, which then gets displayed like a heat map.
At the time of publication, the map showed nearly 349,000 cybersecurity job openings nationwide and a total employed cybersecurity workforce of more than 778,000.
The CyberSeek website also includes a Career Pathway section, which provides job seekers and those looking to get into cybersecurity careers with entry-level positions, salary statistics, and potential career pathways. The tool is also designed to help employers find areas of the country with a high saturation of cybersecurity workers, as the current market has more open positions than workers able to fill them.
CyberSeek was created by CompTIA and Burning Glass Technologies as the first-year product of a three-year grant awarded to CompTIA by NIST. The first-year grant consisted of $249,000 and CompTIA will receive second-year funding of $110,000 to expand the tool.(4)
Also at CyberSeek there a Cybersecurity Career Pathway tool that shows many opportunities for workers to start and advance their careers within cybersecurity. This interactive career pathway shows key jobs within cybersecurity, common transition opportunities between them, and detailed information about the salaries, credentials, and skill sets associated with each role as well as prevailing salaries.(5)