Information Security Jobs in Oxfordshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 70 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 +37 -22
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 12 42 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.73% 2.34% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.94% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 10
10th Percentile - £36,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £57,190
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £47,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -38.71% +55.00%
75th Percentile £43,250 £59,026 £85,000
90th Percentile £50,750 £67,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,670 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.25% +2.61% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Information 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 646 1,428 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 93.35% 79.64% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 295 1,110 757
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,125 £62,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Oxfordshire

Information Security
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security in Oxfordshire.

Salary trend for Information Security in Oxfordshire

Information Security
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Information Security in Oxfordshire

Information 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 Information Security within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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 - 5 £41,500 - 1
Oxford +18 4 £62,500 +31.58% 34
Witney +18 1 £45,000 +20.00%
Information Security
South East

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) Exchange Server 2013
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) SAN
2 7 (58.33%) VLAN
2 7 (58.33%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (41.67%) LAN
3 5 (41.67%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 2 (16.67%) DNS
4 2 (16.67%) IP Telephony
4 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (41.67%) 3rd Line Support Technician
1 5 (41.67%) Support Technician
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Support
2 2 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Information Security
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Security
3 1 (8.33%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Identity Management Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Information Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Information Assurance Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Information Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Replication
2 2 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (8.33%) e-Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Mac OS
4 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
4 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
1 7 (58.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 6 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Coaching
6 1 (8.33%) Data Privacy
6 1 (8.33%) Data Security
6 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (8.33%) Information Security Management
6 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (8.33%) Security Management
6 1 (8.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 1 (8.33%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CISM
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (58.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (58.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (16.67%) NIST
4 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 7 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (58.33%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) arcserve
4 2 (16.67%) Apple
4 2 (16.67%) Aruba
4 2 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) Sophos