Cybersecurity Engineer Salary Around the World (2026)

United States

Published mid-level base-salary band in KORE1's July 2026 guide [2], checked against Robert Half's national hiring benchmark [3] and Motion Recruitment's 2026 mid-level Cybersecurity Engineer range [4]. These are recruiting-market benchmarks, not a statistical confidence interval around a national median. Bonus, equity and benefits are excluded.

United Kingdom

London-focused permanent Cyber Security Engineer band from Morgan McKinley's 2026 guide [5]. IT Jobs Watch's advertised-salary statistics through 6 September 2026 provide an independent UK-wide cross-check [6]; the national advertised median is lower. This row represents the London hiring market, not a measured UK-wide median. Contract rates and additional compensation are excluded.

Australia

Melbourne base-pay band from Re:Sourced's 2026 Cyber Security Engineer guide, using the central spread of accepted offers and recent searches [7]. PayScale's July 2026 national base-pay survey provides a second evidence type but reports a lower central value [8]; the samples are not directly comparable and were not mechanically averaged. This is a city hiring-market proxy, not a national median. Superannuation, bonuses and equity are excluded.

Germany

Optima Europe's March 2026 guide explicitly gives this gross annual base-pay range for mid-level Cybersecurity Engineers [9]. Barclay Simpson's 2026 Information Security Engineer salary benchmarks corroborate the engineering market, with regional and employer variation [10]. The publisher's cohort is broader than the precise target profile; this is an indicative market band, not a measured national median interval. Variable pay and employer contributions are excluded.

Ireland

Dublin permanent Security Engineer band from Morgan McKinley [11], cross-checked against IT Search's Galway IT Security Engineer placement benchmark [12]. These are cyber/IT security engineering roles, not physical security positions. Dublin and Galway evidence is not a countrywide statistical median; only permanent annual salary figures are used, with daily contract rates and bonuses excluded.

Canada

Estimated typical base-pay band, formed by rounding the span between Robert Half's 2026 national hiring midpoint [13] and the midpoint of CadMakers' Vancouver/Burnaby vacancy dated 17 August 2026 [14]. It is not a published national median range; individual offers can fall below it. CadMakers alternates Engineer and Analyst wording, but its Zero Trust implementation, security automation and application-security responsibilities support the engineering match. Benefits are separately listed and excluded.

Netherlands

Employer-anchored estimate using Nedap's Cyber Security Engineer vacancy in Groenlo, quoted as gross monthly salary for a 38-hour week [15]. Endpoint protection, incident response and security-control implementation match the target occupation. Glassdoor's Dutch base-pay figures, including current-year employee submissions, provide an independent check [16]. This limited employer/employee evidence does not establish a national median. The separately listed thirteenth-month payment, profit sharing, pension and other additions are excluded.

France

Gross fixed annual Ingénieur cybersécurité estimate from Hays, whose published experience bracket matches the target profile [17]. The Hays page does not display a publication date, so its band was cross-checked against HelloWork's engineering-specific salary evidence published 14 April 2026 [18]. This is a recruiting benchmark, not a measured national median. Performance bonuses, profit sharing and benefits are additional and excluded.

Spain

Security/Cybersecurity Engineer band from Manfred's January 2026 community-based technology salary guide [19]. PayScale's May 2026 experience-filtered Cyber Security Engineer base-pay sample has a central value within this band and provides an independent check [20]. The published cohorts overlap rather than exactly isolate the requested profile, and the PayScale sample is small. This is an indicative fixed-salary proxy; bonuses and total-pay figures are not included.

Malaysia

Employer-anchored estimate from Insyghts Security's August 2026 Johor Cybersecurity Engineer vacancy, whose application asks for monthly basic salary [21]. The mixed infrastructure/security role includes SIEM detection engineering, SOAR automation, security hardening and cloud controls. PayScale's June 2026 exact-title base-pay survey is an independent but lower national benchmark [22]; it was not averaged with this vacancy. This band describes the disclosed hiring segment, not a measured national median, and excludes benefits.

Philippines

Lower-confidence Manila managed-services/enterprise estimate spanning rounded central values from First Focus's September 2026 monthly basic-pay vacancy [23] and Indeed's June 2026 Career Professionals salary dataset [24]. First Focus internally calls the position Security Technician; inclusion is based on its ownership and configuration/optimization of enterprise security controls, not the title alone. The vacancy uses broad experience wording and Indeed has only two observations. This is not a national median; separately listed bonuses and benefits are excluded.

India

Estimated typical fixed-salary band spanning PayScale's June 2026 Cyber Security Engineer base-pay central value [25] and the rounded midpoint of Hashira's current Hyderabad Security Engineer vacancy [26]. The vacancy matches the target through cloud, application and security-tooling responsibilities; equity is not offered and bonuses are separately described. Wellfound's salary field is annual [27]. This combines employee-survey and startup-vacancy evidence, not a measured national median or a universal employer pay scale.