Information Security Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Information Security (InfoSec)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Information Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Information Security 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 2.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% - -
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 £418 - £615
% change year-on-year - - +17.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

Information Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43 22 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 86.00% 75.86% 82.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 56
10th Percentile £257 £244 £207
25th Percentile £372 £459 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £419
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +25.37% -6.94%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £550
90th Percentile £639 £681 £655
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.62 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £16.71 £45.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.88% +246.15% -48.00%
75th Percentile £21.47 £47.50 £14.86
90th Percentile £23.68 - £20.74
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.18 £55.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -63.31% +182.05% -25.00%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Oxford

Information Security
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Information Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Information Security

Information Security
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Information Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Information Security

Information Security
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%) Threat Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST