Cyber Assurance Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Cyber Assurance
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Cyber Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Assurance 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.62% - 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £630 -
% change year-on-year -8.73% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Cyber Assurance 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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 103 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 79.44% 90.35% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 61 107
10th Percentile £225 £185 £150
25th Percentile £363 £250 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £500
90th Percentile £638 £688 £609
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 10 38
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.93 £13.12
Median hourly rate £28.48 £25.23 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.88% +29.36% -27.99%
75th Percentile £51.27 £41.83 £29.38
90th Percentile £53.75 £46.30 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.82 £47.50
% change year-on-year +103.35% -45.65% -5.00%

Cyber Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Cyber Assurance job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Cyber Assurance
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Assurance within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Abingdon - 1 - -
Oxford - 1 - -
Cyber Assurance
South East

Cyber Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (100.00%) GRC
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST