DORA Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring DORA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	104	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing DORA	1	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire	0.052%	-	-
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	0.41%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£58,750	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	-	-
75^th Percentile	£66,250	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South East median annual salary	£62,500	£100,000	£92,500
% change year-on-year	-37.50%	+8.11%	-

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxfordshire

DORA 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.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills	245	86	104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire	12.75%	12.54%	9.52%
Number of salaries quoted	192	59	57
10^th Percentile	£36,250	£35,683	£29,400
25^th Percentile	£45,892	£39,750	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£41,500	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+50.60%	-20.95%	+5.00%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£59,375	£63,750
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£73,000	£78,750
South East median annual salary	£52,500	£55,000	£54,000
% change year-on-year	-4.55%	+1.85%	+2.86%

DORA Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DORA within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 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	-	1	£62,500	-
DORA South East

DORA Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, job vacancies citing DORA also mentioned 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 Oxfordshire region with a requirement for DORA.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Application Security	100.0%	1
1	AWS	100.0%	1
1	Azure	100.0%	1
1	Cloud Security	100.0%	1
1	Cyber Resilience	100.0%	1
1	Cybersecurity	100.0%	1
1	Firewall	100.0%	1
1	GCP	100.0%	1
1	Identity Access Management	100.0%	1
1	Incident Response	100.0%	1
1	ISO/IEC 27001	100.0%	1
1	Network Security	100.0%	1
1	NIST	100.0%	1
1	OWASP	100.0%	1
1	Security Monitoring	100.0%	1
1	Security Operations	100.0%	1
1	SIEM	100.0%	1
1	VPN	100.0%	1
1	Vulnerability Management	100.0%	1
1	Vulnerability Remediation	100.0%	1

DORA Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Quality Assurance & Compliance

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ISO/IEC 27001	100.0%	1
1	NIST	100.0%	1