Where a ICT security administrator can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a ICT security administrator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
ICT security administrators plan and carry out security measures to protect information and data from unauthorised access, deliberate attack, theft and corruption.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 50%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 1difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 59required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- ethical hacker 42% covered · difficulty 70.7
- cybersecurity risk manager 39% covered · difficulty 70.5
- cyber incident responder 36% covered · difficulty 72
- ICT resilience manager 35% covered · difficulty 68.3
- ICT system administrator 35% covered · difficulty 74.7
- chief ICT security officer 34% covered · difficulty 77.4
- embedded systems security engineer 33% covered · difficulty 73.3
- cloud engineer 32% covered · difficulty 75.8
- ICT security technician 31% covered · difficulty 79.2
- database administrator 28% covered · difficulty 79.3
- cloud identity manager 28% covered · difficulty 68.2
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ICT security administrator is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a ICT security administrator already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.