Cyber Security Salary in 2025
💰 The median Cyber Security Salary in 2025 is USD 130,000
✏️ This salary info is based on 542 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Cyber Security salary lies between USD 86,600 and USD 175,000 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
- 542
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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 | 1943 jobs Cloud | 1782 jobs CISSP | 1469 jobs Computer Science | 1443 jobs Monitoring | 1361 jobs Incident response | 1330 jobs NIST | 1258 jobs Vulnerabilities | 1231 jobs Risk management | 1127 jobs SIEM | 1092 jobs Clearance | 1033 jobs Firewalls | 959 jobs Strategy | 883 jobs Risk assessment | 842 jobs CISM | 790 jobs Automation | 777 jobs Linux | 768 jobs Azure | 747 jobs Audits | 745 jobs Governance | 714 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 | 2199 jobs Health care | 1389 jobs Team events | 1090 jobs Flex hours | 1037 jobs Competitive pay | 912 jobs Insurance | 718 jobs Equity / stock options | 560 jobs Flex vacation | 541 jobs Startup environment | 499 jobs Parental leave | 472 jobs Salary bonus | 459 jobs Medical leave | 458 jobs 401(k) matching | 414 jobs Wellness | 338 jobs Relocation support | 150 jobs Fitness / gym | 129 jobs Conferences | 116 jobs Transparency | 85 jobs Flexible spending account | 82 jobs Gear | 64 jobsRelated salaries
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