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r/CyberSecurityJobs

65.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 326 upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
65.1Kmembers
326best post
104most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

62% 38%
Text 62% Question 38%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

It's a waste of time. Start a business

↑ 326 💬 97 text 2026

UPDATE: I got an offer for a Jr. Cybersecurity analyst position

↑ 243 💬 58 text 2026

I love cybersecurity, but I feel like I’ve had enough of this field and its toxic culture

↑ 122 💬 79 text 2026

Degrees in cybersecurity creates incompetence in cybersecurity

↑ 92 💬 101 text 2026

I Landed entry level Help desk

↑ 79 💬 45 text 2026

Cybersecurity degree + internship

↑ 73 💬 104 text 2026

struggling to land my first cybersecurity role after graduation

↑ 65 💬 45 text 2026

Career Switch to Cybersecurity at 29+ – Looking for a Realistic Roadmap

↑ 57 💬 49 text 2026

Junior in college was offered a 70k Jr. Cybersecurity analyst job Should I take it? 0YOE

↑ 50 💬 50 question 2026

Is Cybersecurity a Good Career for Someone Like Me?

↑ 49 💬 37 question 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/CyberSecurityJobs, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/CyberSecurityJobs have?
r/CyberSecurityJobs has about 65.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 326 upvotes, which is 5 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/CyberSecurityJobs?
"It's a waste of time. Start a business" reached 326 upvotes and 97 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/CyberSecurityJobs.
What subreddits are similar to r/CyberSecurityJobs?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Astuff, r/FreeFolkNation, r/InvictaSolaris, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis.
What kind of posts do best on r/CyberSecurityJobs?
Of the posts we hold, 62% are text posts and 38% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/CyberSecurityJobs?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (85 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (81 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 00:00 UTC (33 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/CyberSecurityJobs?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/CyberSecurityJobs has 29 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 124 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/CyberSecurityJobs, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.