What is the average salary for Information Security Engineers?

The average salary for Information Security Engineers is $182K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 59 public records.

Which cities pay Information Security Engineers the most?

The highest-paying cities for Information Security Engineers include San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Austin, TX.

What skills do Information Security Engineers need?

Key skills for Information Security Engineers include Domain Expertise, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking.

Information Security Engineers

Salary benchmarks based on 59 public records across 4 cities.

What do Information Security Engineers do?

All computer occupations not listed separately. Excludes “Computer and Information Systems Managers” (11-3021), “Computer Hardware Engineers” (17-2061), “Electrical and Electronics Engineers” (17-2070), “Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary” (25-1021), “Special Effects Artists and Animators” (27-1014), “Graphic Designers” (27-1024), “Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars” (29-9021), and “Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers” (49-2011).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 15-1299)

What our data shows for Information Security Engineers

RoleHue publishes 59 salary records for Information Security Engineers, across 4 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $155,677 at the 25th percentile to $199,485 at the 75th, a spread of $43,808 around $181,904. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $181,904 figure rather than in dollars (24% of it), that spread is tighter than 64% of the roles we cover.

San Francisco, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $216,906; New York, NY the lowest at $150,000, a gap of $66,906. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $66,906, wider than the $43,808 band within cities: for Information Security Engineers, which metro a record comes from separates our numbers more than where a record sits within its own metro.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is Austin, TX, with 17 of the 59 records we publish for this role (29%). No city here reaches 25 records, the depth we treat as our threshold for calling a city median well evidenced, so every city median on this page rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 59 data points.

$156K

P25

$182K

P50

$199K

P75

P25 $156K P50 $182K P75 $199K

Top Paying Cities

San Francisco, CA

$217K n=15 Sunnyvale, CA

$213K n=12 Austin, TX

$157K n=17 New York, NY

$150K n=15

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Information Security Engineers roles, plus anonymous submissions.

How we calculate benchmarks

Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-06-08. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.