Technology

Information Security Analyst in San Francisco

123 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 123 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
18%
22 of 123 postingsAccredited institution →
OSCPOffSec
7%
9 of 123 postings$1,749 exam · fee checked 2026-08~400 hrs prepOffSec →

What it costs

Exam and application fees plus typical self-study hours. Almost nobody needs every credential on this list — start with the top line.

Most-asked-for, on its own

$1,749OSCP · ~400 hrs

asked for in 9 of 123 postings — 7%

If you earned all 1 of them

$1,749

fees checked 2026-08

400 hrs

400 hours — about 40 weeks at 10 hrs/wk

Not in the total: Bachelor's Degree — cost varies by institution.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

CCNACisco
1%
1 of 123 postings$300 exam · fee checked 2026-08~150 hrs prepCisco →
CEHEC-Council
2%
2 of 123 postings$1,199 exam · fee checked 2026-08~160 hrs prepEC-Council →
Security+CompTIA
2%
3 of 123 postings$404 exam · fee checked 2026-08~110 hrs prepCompTIA →
CCNPCisco
1%
1 of 123 postings$700 exam · fee checked 2026-08~300 hrs prepCisco →
Secret Security ClearanceU.S. Government (DCSA)
2%
3 of 123 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →
TS/SCIU.S. Government (DCSA)
2%
3 of 123 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →
CISSPISC2
3%
4 of 123 postings$749 exam · fee checked 2026-08~300 hrs prepISC2 →

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job

53%reported bachelor’s degree

Bachelor’s degree53%
Post-baccalaureate certificate23%
Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree13%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 15-1212.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$61,860

10th percentile

$162,310

median

$246,070

90th percentile

Every credential above costs $1,749 — about 3 days' pay at the median.

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

SpaceX · Roblox · Anthropic · OpenAI · Robinhood · Verkada · Zoox · Decagon · Harvey · Notion · Ridgeline · Vercel · Scale AI · Asana · Astranis · Braze · Faire · Flexport · MongoDB · Perplexity · Sierra · SoFi · 1X · Ask IT Consulting · Baseten · Brex · Chime · Cognition · Cursor · Databricks · Discord · Figma · Gusto · Harbinger Motors · Kodiak Robotics · Mach Industries · Mercor · Nimble Robotics · Postman · Spring Health · USM · Zip

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