Fastest-growing cybersecurity skills: average salary premium 2021

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Alexandra Borgeaud,
Mar 31, 2023
For 2021, the largest average salary premium out of the projected fastest-growing cybersecurity skills (based on five-year growth) is estimated to be cloud security with 15,025 U.S. dollars. The salary premiums of fastest-growing cybersecurity skills are strong incentives for workers to upkill.

Average salary premiums of fastest-growing cybersecurity skills worldwide for 2021 (in U.S. dollars)

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October 2020

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2020

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