Information Security Jobs in Oxford

Information Security (InfoSec)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxford requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 49 48
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 4 19 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 1.97% 2.86% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 3.32% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1 17 5
10th Percentile - £38,600 £60,252
25th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -40.63% +39.13%
75th Percentile £63,750 £59,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £67,500 -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £41,500 £47,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.63% -38.71% +63.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

Information 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 196 572 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 96.55% 86.14% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 110 418 250
10th Percentile £41,125 £29,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,750 £72,188
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Oxford

Information Security
Salary Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Oxford.

Salary trend for Information Security in Oxford

Information Security
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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) IP Telephony
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Information
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Information Security
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Security
1 1 (25.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Identity Management Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Aruba
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft