Head of Cybersecurity Jobs in Oxford

Head of Cybersecurity
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Head of Cybersecurity salary in Oxford is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Cybersecurity 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 0.84% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £83,250 - -
25th Percentile £88,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 - -
75th Percentile £108,125 - -
90th Percentile £113,750 - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £97,500 - £69,076

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Oxford with a recognized job title 217 621 399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 95.39% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 129 466 283
10th Percentile £39,500 £30,000 £26,550
25th Percentile £50,000 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,750 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -4.17% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £68,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £74,375 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £46,293 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.81% -7.41% -4.76%

Head of Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Cybersecurity in Oxford over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Head of Cybersecurity in Oxford

Head of Cybersecurity Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Head of Cybersecurity job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Oxford region featuring Head of Cybersecurity in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management

Head of Cybersecurity Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft