Market slice

Security Officer jobs

22,900 open Security Officer jobs. Median salary $90.5k, 8.8% remote, 1,819 posted this week.

Open roles

22,900

1,819 new this week

Median salary

$90.5k

3.6% disclose pay

Remote share

8.8%

of all openings

Median age of posting

48d

37.5% older than 60d

Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted48d median90d+

Age of posting	Share
Posted in the last 7 days	10.7%
Median age	48 days
Older than 60 days	37.5%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

$41k$157k

Based on 824 postings that disclose pay — 3.6% of this slice.

Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.

Percentile	Salary
25th	$71,500
Median	$90,500
75th	$112,000
90th	$137,500

Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

2,153

1,992

1,832

1,649

1,489

1,328

1,168

Ironbark Manufacturing

1,008

Top technologies

72.0%

65.8%

59.6%

53.4%

47.2%

41.0%

34.8%

28.6%

Most-asked skills

Communication

58.0%

Technical writing

52.6%

Stakeholder management

47.2%

Negotiation

41.8%

Forecasting

36.4%

Budgeting

31.0%

A/B testing

25.6%

Distributed systems

20.2%

Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote

8.8%

Hybrid

34.7%

In Person

56.5%

Top locations

United States

34.0%

Canada

30.4%

United Kingdom

26.8%

Ireland

23.2%

Germany

19.6%

France

16.0%

Netherlands

12.4%

Spain

8.8%

Employers

7,099

hiring in this slice

Posted last 7d

10.7%

of the cohort

Salary disclosed

3.6%

Quarry Analytics · Seattle, Washington, United States

Not disclosed

In Person security services 109d ago

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FAQ

Questions people ask

Which cities hire the most security officers?

The top locations chart above ranks cities by open postings for this role.

Is security officer a remote-friendly role?

The remote share tile shows what percentage of current openings are advertised as remote.

Figures cover 22,900 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →

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