Cyber Essentials Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Cyber Essentials
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Essentials 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.88% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £522 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £530 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -1.04% +2.02% +40.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 41 23 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 25.63% 16.79% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile £185 £299 £120
25th Percentile £222 £347 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £523 £497 £544
90th Percentile £600 £538 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +1.52% -6.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £43.85 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £89.63 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.89% +30.00% +270.37%
75th Percentile - £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £17.96 £54.36 £51.06
% change year-on-year -66.96% +6.47% +129.46%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Cyber Essentials
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cyber Essentials in Oxfordshire

Cyber Essentials
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 Essentials within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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
Oxford - 2 £600 -
Cyber Essentials
South East

Cyber Essentials
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Migration Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Sophos