Salary for Entry-level / Junior Cyber Security during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Entry-level / Junior Cyber Security during 2025 is USD 65,262

✏️ This salary info is based on 82 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average entry-level / junior Cyber Security salary lies between USD 44,000 and USD 92,000 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.

Job title
Cyber Security
Experience
Entry-level / Junior
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
82
Top 10%
$ 138,000
Top 25%
$ 92,000
Median
$ 65,262
Bottom 25%
$ 44,000
Bottom 10%
$ 33,027

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Entry-level / Junior Cyber Security roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with entry-level / junior Cyber Security job listings are Compliance, Computer Science and Monitoring. 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 | 248 jobs Computer Science | 222 jobs Monitoring | 207 jobs Incident response | 192 jobs Cloud | 187 jobs Vulnerabilities | 182 jobs SIEM | 174 jobs Firewalls | 130 jobs NIST | 121 jobs Clearance | 118 jobs CISSP | 111 jobs Linux | 111 jobs Risk management | 111 jobs Threat intelligence | 110 jobs Windows | 106 jobs SOC | 106 jobs Vulnerability management | 95 jobs Python | 94 jobs Audits | 93 jobs Governance | 88 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Entry-level / Junior Cyber Security roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with entry-level / junior Cyber Security job listings are Career development, Team events and Health care. 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 | 309 jobs Team events | 182 jobs Health care | 173 jobs Flex hours | 139 jobs Competitive pay | 127 jobs Equity / stock options | 86 jobs Flex vacation | 80 jobs Startup environment | 79 jobs Insurance | 78 jobs Parental leave | 52 jobs 401(k) matching | 47 jobs Wellness | 47 jobs Medical leave | 47 jobs Salary bonus | 47 jobs Fitness / gym | 23 jobs Relocation support | 18 jobs Flexible spending account | 18 jobs Conferences | 16 jobs Home office stipend | 14 jobs Gear | 11 jobs

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