From: The Washington Post/Capital Business

By Sarah Halzack

For evidence of the boom in cybersecurity jobs in the Washington region, one could simply take a drive up Interstate 95 toward Fort Meade: The crop of upscale apartments and restaurants make clear that white-collar professionals are moving into the area as it is being remade into the federal government’s hub for cybersecurity work.

Now, an analysis from Burning Glass Technologies helps show just how much appetite there is in the region for workers with this skill set.

Burning Glass conducts daily reviews of job postings across 32,000 online job sites.  In a report released Wednesday, the company said that the Washington metropolitan area had more than 23,000 total job postings for cybersecurity positions in 2013, a figure that far surpasses the number of cyber postings in any other region.  New York, which had the second-highest number of postings, had just over 15,000.  The San Francisco-San Jose metro area, which includes Silicon Valley, had over 12,000. The full list is here:

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