Cybersecurity demand held strong for two years, and job-ready supply still falls short.
Cybersecurity is the rare corner of Indian tech where demand never cooled. Through two years of a slower broader market, security budgets kept climbing and hiring climbed with them. The constraint has never been appetite; it's supply. DSCI-SANS finds 73% of Indian firms still can't find the skilled people they need, and senior roles now sit open for as long as six months. This edition maps where the demand sits, which skills clear the screen, and what they cost.
What the cyber data is actually saying.
Five findings worth surfacing this edition. The full report carries the role-by-role headcount, the city map and the salary bands behind them; these are the ones we'd flag in a leadership conversation.
Demand is broad, and cloud security leads it.
Compliance is now a hiring driver.
The gap is readiness, not headcount.
Pay runs high, and certifications lift it.
Demand spans every regulated sector.
Cloud and SOC lead the security hiring mix.
Share of security hiring by segment, India, June 2026. Cloud security and SOC operations lead at about a quarter each; the rest splits across GRC, architecture, application security, IAM, pen-testing and OT/ICS.
Hiring against this shortage? We run the search.
Cloud security, SOC, GRC and senior specialists across BFSI and the GCCs. If you're building a security team against a thin pool, this is the desk that fills it.
What's inside this edition.
Sequenced so CHROs and talent leaders get the strategic read up top, and the working tables underneath; built to skim in minutes and use the same day.
This edition draws on Recruise's own cybersecurity placement and mandate data for the segment mix, the salary bands and the mid-senior GCC shortfall, corroborated with public sources: the DSCI-SANS Skilling Landscape 2026, the (ISC)² Workforce Study 2025, PwC Digital Trust Insights 2026 (India edition), and role and pay signals from LinkedIn India, Naukri.com and Glassdoor, to June 2026. Segment shares are Recruise estimates; third-party findings are attributed inline. Salary bands are indicative and vary with company size and location.
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