Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Security Operations Engineer during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Mid-level / Intermediate Security Operations Engineer during 2025 is USD 94,900

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Salary details

The average mid-level / intermediate Security Operations Engineer salary lies between USD 82,278 and USD 108,500 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
Security Operations Engineer
Experience
Mid-level / Intermediate
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
6
Top 10%
$ 208,800
Top 25%
$ 108,500
Median
$ 94,900
Bottom 25%
$ 82,278
Bottom 10%
$ 69,620

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 Mid-level / Intermediate Security Operations Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with mid-level / intermediate Security Operations Engineer job listings are Compliance, Cloud and Azure. 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 | 5 jobs Cloud | 5 jobs Azure | 4 jobs Automation | 4 jobs Analytics | 3 jobs AWS | 3 jobs CISSP | 3 jobs Monitoring | 3 jobs SIEM | 2 jobs Incident response | 2 jobs C | 2 jobs ASP.NET | 2 jobs JavaScript | 2 jobs Node.js | 2 jobs GCP | 2 jobs SQL | 2 jobs Governance | 2 jobs Agile | 2 jobs Privacy | 2 jobs Endpoint security | 2 jobs

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

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with mid-level / intermediate Security Operations Engineer job listings are Health care, Career development and Medical leave. 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:

Health care | 3 jobs Career development | 2 jobs Medical leave | 2 jobs Insurance | 2 jobs Flex vacation | 1 jobs Wellness | 1 jobs Startup environment | 1 jobs Team events | 1 jobs Salary bonus | 1 jobs

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