Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Senior Security Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in Oxfordshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 89 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.15% 0.092% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.097% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -19.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 632 1,033 626
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.21% 91.12%
Number of salaries quoted 394 556 517
10th Percentile £28,075 £28,750 £33,959
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +8.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,769 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.64% +0.43% -0.43%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Senior Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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 - 1 £55,000 -
Senior Security Engineer
South East

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Senior Security Engineer job roles required 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 featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
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%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
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