Cyber Security Salary in 2025
💰 The median Cyber Security Salary in 2025 is USD 126,898
✏️ This salary info is based on 524 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Cyber Security salary lies between USD 85,000 and USD 174,720 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
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- all levels
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- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 524
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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 | 1906 jobs Cloud | 1753 jobs CISSP | 1450 jobs Computer Science | 1418 jobs Monitoring | 1333 jobs Incident response | 1306 jobs NIST | 1228 jobs Vulnerabilities | 1205 jobs Risk management | 1102 jobs SIEM | 1072 jobs Clearance | 1005 jobs Firewalls | 940 jobs Strategy | 866 jobs Risk assessment | 820 jobs CISM | 779 jobs Automation | 762 jobs Linux | 752 jobs Azure | 735 jobs Audits | 732 jobs Governance | 704 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 | 2150 jobs Health care | 1361 jobs Team events | 1072 jobs Flex hours | 1017 jobs Competitive pay | 889 jobs Insurance | 704 jobs Equity / stock options | 548 jobs Flex vacation | 532 jobs Startup environment | 487 jobs Parental leave | 463 jobs Medical leave | 451 jobs Salary bonus | 445 jobs 401(k) matching | 406 jobs Wellness | 334 jobs Relocation support | 148 jobs Fitness / gym | 125 jobs Conferences | 116 jobs Transparency | 82 jobs Flexible spending account | 80 jobs Gear | 62 jobsRelated salaries
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