Salary for Senior-level / Expert Cyber Security during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Cyber Security during 2025 is USD 148,636

✏️ This salary info is based on 134 individual salaries reported during 2025

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The average senior-level / expert Cyber Security salary lies between USD 107,106 and USD 188,100 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
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
134
Top 10%
$ 237,600
Top 25%
$ 188,100
Median
$ 148,636
Bottom 25%
$ 107,106
Bottom 10%
$ 83,100

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 Senior-level / Expert Cyber Security roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert 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 | 610 jobs Cloud | 596 jobs CISSP | 540 jobs Computer Science | 448 jobs NIST | 424 jobs Monitoring | 409 jobs Incident response | 408 jobs Vulnerabilities | 396 jobs Risk management | 365 jobs Clearance | 353 jobs SIEM | 325 jobs Firewalls | 311 jobs Strategy | 291 jobs CISM | 289 jobs Risk assessment | 278 jobs Automation | 268 jobs Azure | 264 jobs Audits | 246 jobs Network security | 244 jobs AWS | 238 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Cyber Security roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Cyber Security job listings are Career development, Health care and Flex hours. 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 | 654 jobs Health care | 444 jobs Flex hours | 343 jobs Team events | 295 jobs Insurance | 265 jobs Competitive pay | 256 jobs Equity / stock options | 217 jobs Flex vacation | 171 jobs Medical leave | 160 jobs Salary bonus | 151 jobs 401(k) matching | 148 jobs Parental leave | 142 jobs Startup environment | 142 jobs Wellness | 93 jobs Relocation support | 49 jobs Conferences | 32 jobs Flexible spending account | 30 jobs Fitness / gym | 28 jobs Transparency | 26 jobs Gear | 21 jobs

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