Security Engineer Job Trends in Oxford

Security Engineer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Security Engineer salary in Oxford is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 1.43% - 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% - 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £60,000
75th Percentile £57,500 - £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -20.00%

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 185 339 287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.10% 95.22% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 134 198 231
10th Percentile £31,300 £32,987 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,250 £82,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +8.17%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Oxford

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Oxford.

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in Oxford

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford

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

1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Tenable
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) Qualys
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing

Security Engineer Skill Set
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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable
4 Security Engineer jobs in Oxfordshire