Network Security Jobs in Oxfordshire

Network Security
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 90 70
Rank change year-on-year +22 -20 +43
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Network Security 1 11 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.14% 0.80% 1.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.64% 8.53% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 14
10th Percentile - £39,635 -
25th Percentile - £41,732 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £45,096 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +121.75% -21.57% +12.20%
75th Percentile - £46,445 £58,750
90th Percentile - £57,500 -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% +13.00%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 156 129 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 22.03% 9.35% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 87 104 129
10th Percentile £27,850 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £44,089 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% -7.18% -1.21%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,750 £65,000 £62,500
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% +3.09% +2.11%

Network Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford +19 1 £100,000 +207.69% 1
Network Security
South East

Network 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto