Salary for Senior-level / Expert SOC Lead during 2024

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert SOC Lead during 2024 is USD 144,075

✏️ This salary info is based on 8 individual salaries reported during 2024

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The average senior-level / expert SOC Lead salary lies between USD 108,550 and USD 187,000 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
SOC Lead
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2024
Sample size
8
Top 10%
$ 196,225
Top 25%
$ 187,000
Median
$ 144,075
Bottom 25%
$ 108,550
Bottom 10%
$ 89,700

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

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Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert SOC Lead roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert SOC Lead job listings are SOC, Monitoring and SIEM. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2024 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

SOC | 43 jobs Monitoring | 25 jobs SIEM | 23 jobs Incident response | 23 jobs Cloud | 22 jobs Computer Science | 21 jobs EDR | 18 jobs Threat intelligence | 16 jobs IDS | 15 jobs Compliance | 15 jobs IPS | 14 jobs Forensics | 13 jobs Malware | 12 jobs CISSP | 12 jobs Scripting | 12 jobs Threat detection | 11 jobs AWS | 11 jobs Automation | 11 jobs NIST | 11 jobs CISM | 9 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert SOC Lead roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert SOC Lead job listings are Team events, Health care and Career development. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2024 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Team events | 17 jobs Health care | 13 jobs Career development | 12 jobs Insurance | 7 jobs Competitive pay | 6 jobs Equity / stock options | 5 jobs Travel | 5 jobs Wellness | 4 jobs Startup environment | 4 jobs 401(k) matching | 3 jobs Parental leave | 3 jobs Medical leave | 2 jobs Salary bonus | 2 jobs Flex hours | 1 jobs Conferences | 1 jobs

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