Technology
Information Security Analyst in Seattle
41 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 12 employers · largest 24% of it
What employers actually ask for
Credentials named in the 41 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.
- Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution24%10 of 41 postingsAccredited institution →
- Secret Security ClearanceU.S. Government (DCSA)7%3 of 41 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →
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.
- CEHEC-Council2%
- CISSPISC22%
- OSCPOffSec2%
- TS/SCIU.S. Government (DCSA)5%2 of 41 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →
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.
- 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 2026-10-01 · 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.
Who was hiring
Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.
SpaceX · Anthropic · Robinhood · Anduril Industries · Stripe · Scale AI · SoFi · 360 IT Professionals · Artech Information System · Blink Health · Brex · OpenAI
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