Cybersecurity Careers in Japan: What 415 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 415
- 163
- 52%
- 42%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
32
3-4 years of experience
88
5-9 years of experience
78
10+ years of experience
18
14%
33% day-to-day or above
Registered information security specialist 29%
PMP 7%
Information Security
75%
AWS
33%
Project Management
32%
Azure
22%
Google Cloud
22%
Stakeholder Management
17%
SaaS
16%
Generative AI
15%
415 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
13%
31% day-to-day or above
Registered information security specialist 22%
32 postings
3–4 years
13%
28% day-to-day or above
Registered information security specialist 26%
PMP 6%
Google Cloud 24% (+11)
88 postings
5+ years
19%
46% day-to-day or above
Registered information security specialist 23%
Stakeholder Management 27% (+10)
96 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥8,700,000 · 174 postings state pay
¥7,100,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥11,000,000
Median ¥8,500,000 · 45 postings state pay
¥7,100,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥9,500,000
Working Conditions
- 122 days
56 postings
- 20 h
56 postings
- 33%
- 18%
Fully remote
30
Hybrid
108
On-site
12
411 postings
What Comes Next
People management
30
Specialist track
27
Senior leadership
16
Project management
13
Internal transfer or rotation
3
Employers naming each step, of 35 that name one
Levels by Job Title
Specialist track
Entry / new graduate
8
Junior / associate
1
Senior
13
Principal
2
Management track
Team lead
17
Manager
30
Director
3
Individual-contributor level
24 postings from 20 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Cybersecurity · individual-contributor level
English · 22 postings
Daily English
23%
Some English
27%
No English stated
50%
Japanese · 23 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
83%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
9%
No level stated
9%
5 years median (middle half 4 to 5)
over 11 postings stating a threshold
8% of postings (2)
Manager level
30 postings from 20 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Cybersecurity · manager level
English · 28 postings
Daily English
25%
Some English
50%
No English stated
25%
Japanese · 28 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
75%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
18%
No level stated
7%
7 years median (middle half 5 to 10)
over 19 postings stating a threshold
37% of postings (11)
Registered information security specialist (17%)
6 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Who Is Hiring
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cybersecurity career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Cybersecurity job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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