Security Posture Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Security Posture
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in permanent job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 4 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.54% - 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% - 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £55,125 - £49,000
25th Percentile £59,063 - £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £67,500
75th Percentile £68,750 - £78,438
90th Percentile £77,750 - £81,875
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +26.44% -42.00%

All Generic Skills
Oxfordshire

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 185 321 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 25.00% 40.74% 30.30%
Number of salaries quoted 118 147 194
10th Percentile £26,175 £36,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +5.16% +25.29%
75th Percentile £65,938 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,125 £77,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £57,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -21.05% +4.59% -0.91%

Security Posture
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Security Posture job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Security Posture
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Security Posture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Security Posture

Security Posture
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Posture in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Posture in Oxfordshire

Security Posture
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Posture within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Oxford - 2 £68,750 -
Security Posture
South East

Security Posture
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable