Risk and trust
What does a Cybersecurity Analyst do?
Protecting systems, data, and people from failure and misuse.
What the day is like
- Indoors, under a roof.
- A screen and a keyboard.
- Largely on your own.
- Right or wrong, to a standard.
- Answerable for your own work.
The facts
- Pay
- $129,180 a year, median
- Information security analysts, May 2025
- Usually needs
- Bachelor's degree
- Several years, and usually a formal qualification.
- Jobs
- +21% projected change in jobs, 2025-2035 projections
- Demand looks growing fast
What is good about it
- It pays well against the rest of the work on this site.
- You answer for your own work rather than for other people, which suits more people than admit it.
What people find hard about it
- Alert volume
- Being right but unheard until something breaks
- On-call interruption
The work is continuous vigilance, and success looks like nothing happening.
Will machines take this job?
Hard for machines to take over. Demand grows as systems grow; the work rewards continuous relearning.
How to find out whether it suits you
Complete a basic security review of a small digital service and document the top three risks.
Would this actually suit you?
CareerDNA works that out from what you choose rather than from what you say about yourself: two minutes of choosing between real jobs, a few puzzles, and some questions about what you are like. It is free, it saves as you go, and it will tell you plainly where the answer is thin.