Signals

The report triangulates across seven signal layers: the ATS job corpus (what employers say they need), practitioner surveys (what practitioners are experiencing), and five external sources below. Each layer is independently collected and classified against the same AI security taxonomy. When all seven describe the same structural gap from different angles, the convergence is the argument — not the job descriptions alone.

The benchmark tracks 85+ named signals from job description corpora — skills, tools, frameworks, attack surfaces, and psychometric patterns that define the AI security labor market.