Application Security Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Application Security (AppSec)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Application Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 65 97
Rank change year-on-year -25 +32 -15
Permanent jobs citing Application Security 1 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.060% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.16% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% -17.65% +47.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Application 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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,165 639 1,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 70.18% 90.90% 79.09%
Number of salaries quoted 925 366 659
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -10.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Application Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Application Security job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Application Security
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Application Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Application Security

Application Security
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Security within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford -27 1 £62,500 - 5
Application Security
South East

Application Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST