Cybersecurity Analyst vs Data Engineer
Pay, skills and open jobs side by side, from current job postings across the US.
Pay
Cybersecurity Analyst
$136,700 typical, a year
Most Cybersecurity Analysts earn $110,100 to $162,000 a year.
From 1,253 postings that list pay
2,770 open jobs now
Data Engineer
$150,000 typical, a year
Most Data Engineers earn $126,800 to $176,700 a year.
From 1,279 postings that list pay
2,959 open jobs now
Data Engineers typically earn about $13,300 more a year than Cybersecurity Analysts.
What each one does
Cybersecurity Analyst
- Monitor security systems and alerts to identify suspicious behavior and potential threats.
- Investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents and security events.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and scans to identify security weaknesses.
- Remediate security vulnerabilities and apply necessary patches.
- Collaborate with IT teams and stakeholders to implement security controls.
- Document security incidents, investigations, and response actions.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Data Engineer
- Design and build scalable data pipelines to ingest and process large datasets.
- Develop and maintain data models using SQL and transformation tools.
- Implement data quality controls and monitoring to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Optimize data systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Document data architectures and provide technical guidance to the team.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Cybersecurity Analyst
More common in Cybersecurity Analyst postings
- Cybersecurity 5 in 10 postings
- NIST 3 in 10 postings
- Vulnerability Management 3 in 10 postings
- SIEM 3 in 10 postings
- Risk Management 3 in 10 postings
- Incident Management 2 in 10 postings
- Information Security 2 in 10 postings
- Security & Compliance 2 in 10 postings
Data Engineer
More common in Data Engineer postings
- SQL 6 in 10 postings
- Data Engineering 6 in 10 postings
- Python 6 in 10 postings
- Data Pipeline 4 in 10 postings
- Data Modeling 4 in 10 postings
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
- Databricks 3 in 10 postings
- ETL/ELT 3 in 10 postings
- Snowflake 3 in 10 postings
- Data Warehousing 3 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
Licenses and certifications
Cybersecurity Analyst
- CISSP 4 in 10 postings
Data Engineer
None stand out in current postings.
Open jobs
Cybersecurity Analyst
- $220k/yrstated McLean VARisk ManagementCybersecurityIncident Management
Cybersecurity Detection Engineer II
Studentveterans$89,400 - $134k/yrstated Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesAWSAzureSIEMPythonIncident Management +18- $158,800 - $198,500/yrstated McLean, Virginia, United States of America HybridSplunkSIEMMITRE ATT&CKThreat HuntingGenerative AI +7
Data Engineer
Mid Data Engineer
Imaginary SpacePay not stated US RemotePostgreSQLAmazon RedshiftKubernetesPythonMongoDB +10- Pay not stated Plano, TXTerraformLookerApache AirflowCI/CDSnowflake +41
- Pay not stated San Jose RemotePythonApache AirflowPostgreSQLSQLMySQL +7
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