• ANZSCO occupation

    Definition:A 6-digit code identifying occupation and the name for the lowest level of granularity within The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupation (ANZSCO) framework.
    Source(s):ABS
  • ANZSIC division

    Definition:The name for the top level grouping of The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Industry (ANZSIC) framework.
    Source(s):ABS
  • Average advertised salary

    Definition:The average advertised salary for cyber security roles, based on jobs advertised by employers and across internet job boards.
    Source(s):Lightcast proprietary job posting database
    Notes:All salaries advertised in job postings are converted to annual averages and then aggregated across all employment types.
  • Certification holder type

    Definition:Types of common cyber security related certifications which people hold
    Source(s):Certification Holder data is supplied directly from the certifying bodies.
    Notes:Values of less than 10 are suppressed in order to protect the privacy of these individual certification holders.
  • Jobs openings

    Definition:The number of cyber security jobs advertised by employers and across internet job boards.
    Source(s):Lightcast proprietary job posting database
    Notes:See the methodology for a detailed description on the forecast supply of workers.
  • NICE workforce category

    Definition:A high-level grouping of common cyber security functions, under the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) framework.
    Source(s):NICE Framework
    Notes:Lightcast created a proprietary mapping of the NICE work roles by reviewing the tasks and KSAs associated with each work role and then mapping them to the closest corresponding skills, job titles, and certifications. Note that an individual job posting may be counted within more than one NICE work role or category. As such, the employment and demand numbers are not meant to be aggregated.
  • Requested skills

    Definition:The skills requested in job advertisements.
    Source(s):Lightcast proprietary job posting database.
  • Requested certifications

    Definition:The certifications requested in online job advertisements.
    Source(s):Lightcast proprietary job posting database.
  • Requested education

    Definition:The levels of education requested in online job listings, based on the Australian framework which indicates the level of complexity and/or depth of knowledge and skills required for a qualification.
    Source(s):Lightcast proprietary job posting database.
  • Role level

    Definition:Indicative of the knowledge, skills and experience levels required by a role
  • City

    Definition:City areas are derived based on the Statistical Areas Level 4 (SA4) geographical areas. The SA4 regions are the largest sub-State regions in the Main Structure of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).
    Source(s):ABS
  • State

    Definition:Defined state or territory within Australia.
  • Supply of workers

    Definition:The number of cyber security workers, including those looking for work, sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistic's Labour Market data.
    Source(s):ABS Table RQ2, “Employed persons by Labour market region (ASGS), Occupation major group (ANZSCO) and Sex, Annual averages of the preceding four quarters, Year to August 1999 onwards ”. ABS Table EQ08, “Employed persons by Occupation unit group of main job (ANZSCO), Sex, State and Territory, August 1986 onwards”. Lightcast proprietary job posting database.
    Notes:Employment calculations by gender are meant to be treated as estimates of the gender breakdown within a specific geography, occupation and industry. Additionally, ABS does not endorse the results of any transformations of their data. See the methodology for a detailed description on the forecast supply of workers.
  • Regional & urban

    Definition:Regional and urban areas are based on postcodes. Regional areas are defined by select major regional centres or other regional areas, and urban areas are defined by either cities or select major regional centres.
    Source(s):ABS
    Notes:Roles advertised without a location ie. online roles, have been redistributed between regional & urban.