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Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings

Security Operations Analyst: $101K median posted pay.

From 17 salary bands employers posted on 25 open security operations analyst roles in it & security. Never an estimate.

Median posted band$101K17 posted a band
Middle half$101K–$150K25th to 75th percentile
Open roles2510 posted in 30 days
Entry level2asking no prior experience
Remote16%as the postings state it

The ladder, by level

What each rung pays.

LevelOpen rolesMedian posted bandMiddle half
Mid1— (0 of 8 bands)—
Senior1— (1 of 8 bands)—

Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.

Who is hiring

The employers with the most open.

EmployerOpen rolesEntry level
Anduril Industries5—
Booz Allen Hamilton4—
Bah4—
Pragmatike3—
Huntress2—
Esri2—
Gsknch1—
Rsm1—
CLEAR - Corporate1—
AlphaSense1—

Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open security operations analyst roles tonight.

The skills, as the postings name them

What these postings ask for.

SkillPostingsAt entry
Operations Analysis24—
Security Operations24—
Cybersecurity24—
Emergency Response22—
Investigation22—
SIEM Monitoring15—
Triage13—
Python12—
Data Privacy12—
Cloud Infrastructure10—

Where the work is

16% of these roles are remote.

  • Remote16%4 roles
  • Hybrid0%0 roles
  • On site72%18 roles
  • Not stated12%3 roles

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How this was counted

Every figure is counted from 25 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 19, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 17 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Security Operations Analyst (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in it & security, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.