I think that there will be modest growth whereas the demand for software engineers will probably increase by an order of magnitude. Salary will be the same or a

I think that there will be modest growth whereas the demand for software engineers will probably increase by an order of magnitude. Salary will be the same or a little lower than normal software engineers. Why? Security outside of very specialized companies is a cost center (and one which typically decreases productivity of the rest of the company). My suspicion is that even while compliance becomes a bigger issue, the additional security and compliance responsibilities will be mostly absorbed by traditional IT, sysadmin and devops roles in conjunction with added services/products like StrongDM or Teleport where traditional needs are managed in a good way with much stronger support for compliance and security. Part of the problem is that many of the security jobs are fairly basic and don't do a great job of developing skill sets. A common role I see is an IAM engineer, which to me always sounds like a position for a junior engineer, but really seems to be a mid-level or senior-level position for security engineers. These roles can easily be absorbed into traditional IT or devops roles