The top paying cybersecurity job is a security software engineer with an average annual salary of $233,333, according to a recent report from the job board Dice. That tops the salary for a CSO which is $225,000. The worldwide cybersecurity market is defined by market sizing estimates that range from $77 billion in 2015 to $170 billion by 2020. The demand for information security professionals is expected to rise to 6 million (globally) by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million.”]