Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Cyber Essentials
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.25% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £425 £625 -
% change year-on-year -32.00% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxford

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 14 14 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 17.50% 28.00% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 15
10th Percentile £324 £268 £363
25th Percentile £363 £353 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.92% -15.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £506 £513 £506
90th Percentile £525 £619 £533
Oxfordshire median daily rate £433 £380 £450
% change year-on-year +13.82% -15.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.72 - -
Median hourly rate £26.44 £46.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.89% -28.77% +165.31%
75th Percentile £27.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £47.54 £46.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% -28.77% +160.00%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Essentials relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Oxford

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Cyber Essentials.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST