Security Operations Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Security Operations (SecOps)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Security Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Operations 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.36% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £583 £615
% change year-on-year -9.87% -5.28% +6.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Security Operations 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 131 112 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 89.12% 73.68% 86.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 78 141
10th Percentile £175 £201 £190
25th Percentile £250 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -
75th Percentile £550 £522 £600
90th Percentile £678 £641 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% -3.00% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 13
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.99 £25.19
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.99 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -19.59% +61.60%
75th Percentile £77.50 £67.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £83.25 -
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £59.25 £53.94
% change year-on-year -64.13% +9.85% +65.95%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Security Operations job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Security Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Security Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Security Operations

Security Operations
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 Security Operations within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 10 October 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 - 1 £400 - 1
Security Operations
South East

Security Operations
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 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware