Application Security Job Trends in Oxford

Application Security (AppSec)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Application Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 0.14% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.46% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £62,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 479 217 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 68.62% 96.44% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 356 157 198
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,705 £32,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £39,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £86,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -10.31%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Oxford

Application Security
Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Application Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Application Security

Application 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
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST