Security Posture Job Trends in Oxford

Security Posture
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in Oxford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 3 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 1.40% - 4.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.19% - 10.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £64,375 - £58,750
90th Percentile £76,000 - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £45,000 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%

All Generic Skills
Oxford

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 94 167 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 43.93% 46.26% 39.25%
Number of salaries quoted 67 61 96
10th Percentile £24,500 £41,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £27,853 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% -5.22% +24.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £91,250 £86,250
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% +27.78%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Oxford

Security Posture
Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Security Posture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Oxford over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in Oxford

Security Posture
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) ZENworks
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Meraki
2 2 (66.67%) VMware