Network Security Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Network Security
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Network Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 71 60
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 +41
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 1 9 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.14% 1.11% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.08% 8.49% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £46,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,106 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,096 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.96% -21.57% +9.52%
75th Percentile £57,500 £46,086 £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% -7.83% +12.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

Network Security falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 93 106 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 13.21% 13.04% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 60 62 92
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £43,741 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.41% -7.91% +26.67%
75th Percentile £45,625 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £60,316 £70,000 £74,375
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Network Security job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Network Security
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Network Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Network Security

Network 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 Network Security within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Oxford +9 1 £55,000 - 15
Network Security
South East

Network 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%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable