Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Oxford

Cyber Essentials
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Cyber Essentials skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 35 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 4 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 1.66% 1.58% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.79% 16.67% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £37,100 - -
25th Percentile £47,000 £31,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £32,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £47,500 -
90th Percentile - £72,250 -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £52,705 £32,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +62.17% -43.48% +64.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxford

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 29 24 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 12.03% 9.49% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 18 16 34
10th Percentile £30,350 £31,250 £33,550
25th Percentile £35,854 £51,250 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £55,375 £78,750 £61,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,375 £62,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Oxford

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Oxford over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in Oxford

Cyber Essentials
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Due Diligence
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 2 (50.00%) Internal Audit
1 2 (50.00%) ISMS
1 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Security Management
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 2 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) GDPR
3 2 (50.00%) GRC
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable