Cybersecurity Contracts in Oxfordshire

Cybersecurity
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 9 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 8.49% 2.64% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.78% 3.26% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £608 £769
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £615 £788
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -21.90% +72.13%
75th Percentile £663 £623 £806
90th Percentile £763 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £589 £581
% change year-on-year -6.62% +1.33% +6.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Cybersecurity 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 92 184 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.79% 81.06% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 117 146
10th Percentile £250 £150 £263
25th Percentile £355 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £506 £561
90th Percentile £695 £600 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 13
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £20.85 £13.12 £25.95
Median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.36% -25.00% +38.96%
75th Percentile £46.30 £29.38 £32.30
90th Percentile £46.54 £58.00 £52.90
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Oxfordshire

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Oxfordshire

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Oxfordshire

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Kidlington - 3 £450 - 2
Abingdon - 1 - - 3
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) MPLS
1 1 (11.11%) NAS
1 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Skype
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 3 (33.33%) Automotive
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) IT Support
2 3 (33.33%) Applications Support
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Director
4 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Transformation Director
4 1 (11.11%) Transformation Programme Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Application Rationalisation
2 3 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
2 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) Threat Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CISM
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) MCP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
1 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) SAP
2 3 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) VMware