AI Job Worry Index / Cybersecurity analysts
AI Job Worry Index · Software & data · Google Trends, November 2020 to October 2026

Will AI replace cybersecurity analysts?

Hardly anyone asks. Searches asking whether AI will replace cybersecurity analysts are too rare for Google Trends to report in most months, so cybersecurity analysts sit near the bottom of our index of 56 jobs.

Worry rank
#51
of 56 jobs
Worry index
1.2
programmers = 100
Worried searches, last 12 months
n/a
vs the 12 months before
“AI for” searches per worried search
n/a
since November 2022
“How to become a cybersecurity analyst”
n/a
vs the year before ChatGPT

Few searches: Google Trends reports data for this job in fewer than 12 of the 48 months since ChatGPT, so the charts are spiky. Treat the numbers as a rough signal.

How often people ask whether AI will replace cybersecurity analysts

The grey line is programmers, the job most associated with AI, for scale.

Will AI replace cybersecurity analysts

Monthly. Programmers' average since November 2022 = 100. Hover or use the arrow keys for values.

Source: Google Trends, worldwide.

Curiosity vs worry

Searches for AI built for cybersecurity analysts, next to the worried searches, on the same scale.

“AI for cybersecurity analysts” vs “will AI replace cybersecurity analysts”

Monthly, same scale (programmers' worried searches = 100).

Source: Google Trends, worldwide.

Are fewer people trying to become cybersecurity analysts?

Too few searches for “how to become a cybersecurity analyst” to measure a change reliably.

“how to become a cybersecurity analyst”

Monthly average of weekly data, highest week = 100.

Source: Google Trends, worldwide.

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Will AI replace cybersecurity analysts?

Hardly anyone asks. Searches asking whether AI will replace cybersecurity analysts are too rare for Google Trends to report in most months, so cybersecurity analysts sit near the bottom of our index of 56 jobs. Search interest measures worry, not the actual risk to the job.

How do cybersecurity analysts compare with other jobs?

Cybersecurity analysts rank #51 of 56 jobs in the AI Job Worry Index, with a worry index of 1.2 where programmers = 100. The full ranking is on the index page.