Cyber Essentials Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Cyber Essentials
South East > Oxfordshire

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 69 57
Rank change year-on-year +36 -12 +62
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Essentials 23 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 3.30% 1.11% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.06% 10.11% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 23 4 6
10th Percentile £27,000 - £41,750
25th Percentile £35,125 £31,250 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,410 £32,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.11% -43.48% +64.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £47,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,250 £78,125
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxfordshire

Cyber Essentials falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 85 89 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.18% 10.97% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 58 56 72
10th Percentile £28,225 £33,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,854 £49,375 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £54,625 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.76% +8.17% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £62,813
90th Percentile £77,125 £78,750 £72,338
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -3.67%

Cyber Essentials
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Cyber Essentials job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Cyber Essentials
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Cyber Essentials.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cyber Essentials in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cyber Essentials in Oxfordshire

Cyber Essentials
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Essentials within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Woodstock -3 7 £41,500 -
Oxford +10 4 £62,500 +92.31%
Wallingford - 1 £50,410 -
Abingdon - 1 £70,000 -
Bicester - 1 £90,000 -
Cyber Essentials
South East

Cyber Essentials
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) Exchange Server 2013
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Firewall
2 6 (26.09%) DHCP
2 6 (26.09%) DNS
3 5 (21.74%) LAN
3 5 (21.74%) SAN
3 5 (21.74%) VLAN
3 5 (21.74%) VPN
3 5 (21.74%) WAN
3 5 (21.74%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (17.39%) VoIP
5 1 (4.35%) Network Security
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Support Technician
2 6 (26.09%) IT Support
3 5 (21.74%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (21.74%) 3rd Line Support Technician
3 5 (21.74%) Lead
4 4 (17.39%) IT Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 2 (8.70%) Head of Compliance
5 2 (8.70%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.70%) Head of IT
5 2 (8.70%) IT Support Technician
5 2 (8.70%) IT Technician
6 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Security Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Driving Licence
1 5 (21.74%) Replication
2 3 (13.04%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) AS400
4 1 (4.35%) iSeries
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Windows 10
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Information Security
2 5 (21.74%) Agile
2 5 (21.74%) B2B
2 5 (21.74%) Business Continuity
2 5 (21.74%) ITIL
2 5 (21.74%) Knowledge Transfer
2 5 (21.74%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
5 2 (8.70%) ERP
5 2 (8.70%) Information Security Management
5 2 (8.70%) ISMS
5 2 (8.70%) ITSM
5 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.70%) Security Management
5 2 (8.70%) Security Operations
5 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) CISM
1 3 (13.04%) CISSP
2 2 (8.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (8.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (78.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (43.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 9 (39.13%) NIST
4 4 (17.39%) GDPR
4 4 (17.39%) SLA
5 2 (8.70%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (21.74%) Hyper-V
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (21.74%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) arcserve
2 5 (21.74%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Qualys
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Tenable