Security Engineer Posted Median Jumps to $320,000 — On 13 Priced Listings

The posted median for Security Engineer roles across the boards we track sits at $320,000 over the last 30 days, up from $232,600 in the 30 days before that. That is a gain of $87,400, or 37.6%.

The caveat comes first, because it matters: these are employer-posted salary ranges annualized to USD (hourly converted at 2,080 hours), not what anyone actually earns, and the pools are small. The last-30 median rests on 13 listings that published a range. The prior-30 median rests on 34. At those sizes, a handful of senior or staff-level postings can move the midpoint several tens of thousands of dollars on their own.

So the honest reading is narrower than the headline number: employers who priced Security Engineer work in the last month priced it higher than employers who priced it the month before, and there were fewer of them doing it.

Where that median sits against other priced roles

Security Engineer does not appear in our largest priced-occupation pools, so the comparison is to neighbors rather than peers. Among the ten occupations with the deepest salary coverage on the site:

• Engineering Manager — $280,000 median across 237 listings
• Machine Learning Engineer — $272,800 across 124 listings
• Product Manager — $247,300 across 369 listings
• Software Engineer — $240,000 across 1,294 listings
• Account Executive — $220,000 across 182 listings
• Mechanical Engineer — $185,550 across 123 listings
• Marketing Manager — $175,000 across 146 listings
• Sales Manager — $173,000 across 125 listings
• Financial Analyst — $165,000 across 125 listings
• Sales Representative — $75,914 across 162 listings

At $320,000, the current Security Engineer median prints above every one of those — including Engineering Manager, which carries 237 priced listings to Security Engineer's 13. The prior-30 figure of $232,600 would have landed between Account Executive and Software Engineer. That is the size of the swing in plain terms: one month it reads like a senior individual-contributor band, the next like a management band.

The broader move set is tilted up

Security Engineer isn't alone. Of the eight occupations with a measurable posted-median move between the last 30 days and the 30 before, five rose and three fell.

The risers: Security Engineer ($232,600 to $320,000), Site Reliability Engineer ($211,000 to $257,200, on 8 listings from 34), Manufacturing Engineer ($156,000 to $230,000, on 19 from 71), Analytics Engineer ($155,000 to $220,000, on 7 from 7) and Sales Manager ($165,000 to $215,000, on 23 from 102).

The fallers: Program Manager ($225,750 to $170,000), Aerospace Engineer ($200,000 to $153,000) and the generic Engineer title ($179,545 to $90,750, on 5 listings from 14).

One pattern runs through all eight: every priced pool shrank except Analytics Engineer, which held at 7 both periods. Fewer postings carrying a published range is the common thread, and it is why the medians are jumpy in both directions.

Hiring context

Security Engineer did not make this week's top-posting occupations on the boards we track — that list is led by Software Engineer at 63 new postings, ahead of Product Manager at 17. Site-wide, 10,459 roles were posted in the last seven days against 7,163 the week before, with 58,138 listings open from 686 employers.

On the skills side, Kubernetes (26 new postings) and Terraform (21) both appear in this week's top twelve, alongside Python at 84 and Amazon Web Services (AWS) at 33.

If you're negotiating a security offer right now, the $320,000 figure is a data point worth knowing and a weak one to lean on. Thirteen listings is thirteen listings. You can see what's currently live on Job search and track the day-by-day picture on US hiring trends, day by day.