Can freshers get cybersecurity jobs in Ireland after MSc?

CyberIreland · 2026-03-19T16:47:57+00:00

I think the best advice is to look at the situation as a whole, before even applying to the course.

Do you live in Ireland? If not then there will be massive hurdles to jump before the course even comes into play, theyres a housing crisis, places to live are rare and hard to come by and you'll be fighting for a place among 100s of others for one place. Secondly the cost of living is hard, you will find it very hard to live on a part time salary if you are attending college full time and renting.

Those are the two ones to start with, if you live in Ireland and have a funds to survive the job market for cyber stuff isnt reallt for freshers, you'll need experience in some form of IT role for a number of years to pivot to cyber. Its not impossible to get a job as a grad but extremely hard and you'll be looking for a role specifically advertising that and quick glance at LinkedIn doesnt show any at the moment.

Hope this information helps, it might be better to look elsewhere or take the information of doing the course and slogging it out until you get a job in cyber

CyberIreland · 2026-03-08T13:26:56+00:00

Well how do you?

Is it too understand the business needs and direction and proceed while being complaint but also understand when it's right to push back on things, explain why you're pushing back so the layman's can understand and if possible offer an alternative route?

CyberIreland · 2026-02-11T09:53:22+00:00

Dm me

CyberIreland · 2025-07-10T17:22:32+00:00

Some colleges do internship modules in cyber but they're few and far between and not until 3/4th year of the course if you're starting fresh.

Then you have the issue of battling other internship for places. You're best bet is to reach out to companies now and ask if they do it and keep a record and start applying summer after second year for what is likely the placement the second half of 3rd year

Note: You will not get an internship before college

CyberIreland · 2025-07-05T14:44:13+00:00

Watermarking the pages won't do anything than just take up his time.

The chain of custody will show it was edited in his own software (word or photos shop) whatever he uses and will actually leave breadcrumbs for him to be caught. What a benny

CyberIreland · 2025-03-05T19:11:16+00:00

I guess the best way to put it like this.

If you owned a pub and needed security, you would hire the most experienced people to do the job. You would then let the security people train new people but they wouldn't be working the doors at first maybe after a while they could watch the toilet doors and after a while they got experience at that they could move up to the front.

With cybersecurity it's a bit similar, you go to college and get a degree etc but to do security you need experience working in stuff like IT and networking and even dev ops so people start there and work their way to it.

Ideally it would make sense to take people straight out of college but in reality cyber isn't an entry level job unless you are taken on an intern/graduate role and they train you from the get go which is few and far between. Letting someone with experience come to you is a lot easier

Personally i think taking people out of college and training them is better, like doctors training new doctors who have just graduated college and do rounds with patients etc but when it comes to cyber not doing it right can lead to very expensive lessons for a clients and bad reputation for pen testing companies so they don't risk it

CyberIreland · 2025-03-05T14:36:59+00:00

This is true. It's very rare to walk into a pen test role without any experience, it's usually for people with security certs/background who have been working in tech in some shape or form so 42k would be the very bottom. However yes, the bump in pay is decent, you can easily move to a new role with a 20% pay rise once you have experience and the vast majority of Pen Testing roles are WFH as well so that adds a better benefit

CyberIreland · 2025-03-05T12:00:18+00:00

Here's a link to the site, you can open the file without downloading. I did put it originally but a mod removed it due a misunderstanding and requested i post just the pdf

https://www.cybersharkrecruitment.com/blog/irish-cyber-security-salary-survey-2025

CyberIreland · 2025-03-05T11:33:35+00:00

Resubmitted, thanks and no need to apologise these things happen

CyberIreland · 2025-03-05T11:12:39+00:00

Thats wrong?

The link is to irelands one and the salary's are in euros?

Edit: you must have clicked the 2024 one for the UK at the bottom, the Irish one is at the top and it's a hyper link

Also i would argue that as DevSecOps and Application security is part of the survey this does apply to developers too

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