SOC Analyst vs SOC consultant

In my country, most of the Entry level cyber security job is related to consultants who deal with clients and they ask for minimum SOC L2 and L3. I am mostly a technical guy with some solid knowledge who lacks communication skills.

I just want to know which of them is better on salary and knowledge purpose because in the future i would like to change my role from SOC to some senior security roles like researcher or security engineer …

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