Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Cyber Security during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Cyber Security during 2025 is USD 90,150

✏️ This salary info is based on 64 individual salaries reported during 2025

Submit your salary Download the data

Salary details

The average mid-level / intermediate Cyber Security salary lies between USD 68,200 and USD 130,000 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
Mid-level / Intermediate
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
64
Top 10%
$ 179,630
Top 25%
$ 130,000
Median
$ 90,150
Bottom 25%
$ 68,200
Bottom 10%
$ 50,632

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

Last updated:

Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Mid-level / Intermediate Cyber Security roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with mid-level / intermediate 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 | 170 jobs Cloud | 164 jobs CISSP | 144 jobs Computer Science | 132 jobs Monitoring | 130 jobs Vulnerabilities | 120 jobs Incident response | 115 jobs Clearance | 113 jobs NIST | 112 jobs Risk management | 112 jobs SIEM | 111 jobs Strategy | 106 jobs Firewalls | 84 jobs CISM | 77 jobs Risk assessment | 75 jobs Azure | 75 jobs Network security | 69 jobs Linux | 68 jobs CEH | 67 jobs Audits | 63 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Mid-level / Intermediate Cyber Security roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with mid-level / intermediate 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 | 205 jobs Health care | 123 jobs Team events | 118 jobs Flex hours | 97 jobs Competitive pay | 89 jobs Insurance | 64 jobs Flex vacation | 49 jobs 401(k) matching | 47 jobs Medical leave | 47 jobs Startup environment | 45 jobs Equity / stock options | 38 jobs Wellness | 38 jobs Salary bonus | 37 jobs Parental leave | 36 jobs Fitness / gym | 15 jobs Transparency | 14 jobs Conferences | 14 jobs Relocation support | 12 jobs Travel | 9 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 9 jobs

Related salaries

Cyber Security @ $ 69,928 (global) - Entry-level / Junior Details
Cyber Security @ $ 150,000 (global) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Cyber Security @ $ 207,000 (global) - Executive-level / Director Details
Cyber Security @ $ 120,000 (global) Details
Cyber Security @ $ 99,808 (United States) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Cyber Security @ $ 136,800 (United States) Details
Cyber Security @ $ 207,450 (United States) - Executive-level / Director Details
Cyber Security @ $ 160,630 (United States) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Cyber Security @ $ 83,000 (United States) - Entry-level / Junior Details
Cyber Security @ $ 46,202 (United Kingdom) Details
Cyber Security @ $ 30,755 (United Kingdom) - Entry-level / Junior Details
Cyber Security @ $ 50,632 (United Kingdom) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
Cyber Security @ $ 49,000 (Canada) - Entry-level / Junior Details
Cyber Security @ $ 89,676 (Canada) Details
Cyber Security @ $ 136,767 (Australia) Details

Want to contribute?

📝 Submit your salary info

Enter your own salary data for the current or past work year. It's quite simple and doesn't take more than a minute to fill out.

Go to salary survey

📢 Share our salary survey

Share our "in-less-than-a-minute survey" with others working in the field of InfoSec / Cybersecurity. The more data we have the better for everyone.

💾 Download the data

All collected information will be updated into a public dataset regularly and provided as a download free for anyone to use.

Go to download page

🚀 Search for jobs & talent

If you're thinking about a career change or want to hire fresh talent quickly check out the jobs page.

Go to frontpage

About this project

We collect salary information anonymously from professionals and employers all over the world and make it publicly available for anyone to use, share and play around with.

Our goal is to have open salary data for everyone. So newbies, experienced pros, hiring managers, recruiters and also startup founders or people wanting to switch careers can make better decisions.