Cyber Security Salary in 2025
💰 The median Cyber Security Salary in 2025 is USD 120,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 198 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Cyber Security salary lies between USD 78,661 and USD 176,000 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.
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- Cyber Security
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 198
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All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
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Top 20 Job Tags for Cyber Security roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with Cyber Security job listings are Compliance, Cloud and CISSP. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:
Compliance | 836 jobs Cloud | 748 jobs CISSP | 666 jobs Computer Science | 644 jobs Monitoring | 592 jobs Incident response | 562 jobs Vulnerabilities | 560 jobs NIST | 528 jobs Risk management | 513 jobs Clearance | 500 jobs SIEM | 473 jobs Firewalls | 420 jobs Strategy | 388 jobs Risk assessment | 363 jobs CISM | 359 jobs Audits | 341 jobs Automation | 337 jobs Linux | 322 jobs Network security | 320 jobs Azure | 313 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Cyber Security roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with Cyber Security job listings are Career development, Health care and Team events. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:
Career development | 978 jobs Health care | 584 jobs Team events | 487 jobs Flex hours | 472 jobs Competitive pay | 391 jobs Insurance | 300 jobs Equity / stock options | 284 jobs Flex vacation | 255 jobs Medical leave | 213 jobs Startup environment | 202 jobs Parental leave | 196 jobs 401(k) matching | 187 jobs Salary bonus | 186 jobs Wellness | 149 jobs Relocation support | 58 jobs Fitness / gym | 57 jobs Conferences | 53 jobs Flexible spending account | 38 jobs Transparency | 35 jobs Home office stipend | 33 jobsRelated salaries
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