Cyber Security Salary in Germany during 2025
💰 The median Cyber Security Salary in Germany during 2025 is USD 80,434
✏️ This salary info is based on 8 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average Cyber Security salary lies between USD 21,360 and USD 105,622 in Germany. 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.
- Job title
- Cyber Security
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- Germany
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 8
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Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
Last updated: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 | 1874 jobs Cloud | 1721 jobs CISSP | 1432 jobs Computer Science | 1395 jobs Monitoring | 1307 jobs Incident response | 1288 jobs NIST | 1209 jobs Vulnerabilities | 1183 jobs Risk management | 1087 jobs SIEM | 1044 jobs Clearance | 990 jobs Firewalls | 928 jobs Strategy | 853 jobs Risk assessment | 808 jobs CISM | 768 jobs Automation | 749 jobs Linux | 736 jobs Azure | 723 jobs Audits | 720 jobs Governance | 690 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 | 2112 jobs Health care | 1327 jobs Team events | 1044 jobs Flex hours | 1001 jobs Competitive pay | 874 jobs Insurance | 691 jobs Equity / stock options | 540 jobs Flex vacation | 525 jobs Startup environment | 481 jobs Parental leave | 454 jobs Medical leave | 439 jobs Salary bonus | 439 jobs 401(k) matching | 397 jobs Wellness | 326 jobs Relocation support | 146 jobs Fitness / gym | 123 jobs Conferences | 114 jobs Transparency | 81 jobs Flexible spending account | 80 jobs Gear | 62 jobsRelated salaries
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