Information Security Contracts in Oxfordshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 27 28
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Information Security 16 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 7.08% 2.63% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 2.99% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £487 £415 £164
25th Percentile £581 £438 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year +32.97% -26.00% -
75th Percentile £623 £541 £688
90th Percentile - £636 -
South East median daily rate £568 £610 £550
% change year-on-year -6.97% +10.91% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.50 £72.40 -
% change year-on-year -73.06% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Information Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 178 201 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 78.76% 88.16% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 131 185
10th Percentile £150 £250 £170
25th Percentile £263 £343 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £575
90th Percentile £623 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 14 9
10th Percentile £11.70 £23.54 -
25th Percentile £13.00 £25.96 £17.42
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.23 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.49% +51.15% -27.27%
75th Percentile £30.50 £45.20 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £52.63 £29.29
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Oxfordshire

Information Security
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Security in Oxfordshire

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Oxfordshire

Information Security
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kidlington +1 6 - -
Oxford +5 1 £500 -13.04% 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
2 2 (12.50%) IaaS
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
2 2 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) LAN
1 3 (18.75%) WAN
1 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 6 (37.50%) Legal
1 6 (37.50%) Police
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Business Process Trainer
1 6 (37.50%) IT Trainer
1 6 (37.50%) Trainer
2 1 (6.25%) Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
2 1 (6.25%) Senior
2 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (43.75%) Data Protection
1 7 (43.75%) Information Management
2 6 (37.50%) Information Assurance
2 6 (37.50%) Workload Management
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (6.25%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (6.25%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Assurance
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
4 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Security Patching
4 1 (6.25%) SIEM
4 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Meraki
2 2 (12.50%) VMware