AI agents are reshaping the threat landscape, shifting IT skills requirements

The AI Workforce Consortium is focused on studying the impact of AI on the workforce. Members include Accenture, Cisco, Cornerstone, Eightfold AI, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft, Pearson, and SAP, in partnership with global advisors such as Digitaleurope and the European Vocational Training Association.

The consortium’s report found that between October 2025 and March 2026, the share of G7 cybersecurity postings that require AI skills rose to 28.5%—which is twice the percentage (14.2%) from the year-earlier period. (G7, or Group of 7, refers to the intergovernmental forum that includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.)

According to the report, “an ‘agentic skill stack’ is emerging as a baseline for high-volume cybersecurity roles such as security engineering, cloud security, and detection and response engineering. Five pillars recur in AI-integrated cybersecurity postings: Python, Prompt and context engineering, AI security, agent orchestration and machine learning operations (MLOps).”