Information Security Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Information Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 69 69
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +41
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 12 11 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.93% 1.44% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.53% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 28
10th Percentile £50,000 - £36,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £39,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £45,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -8.63% -34.33%
75th Percentile - £63,750 £61,202
90th Percentile - - £69,375
South East median annual salary £70,000 £57,670 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.38% +0.30% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Information Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 886 717 1,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 68.79% 93.97% 80.39%
Number of salaries quoted 667 339 1,100
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,436 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year - +15.18% -5.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £72,500
South East median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -9.09%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Information Security
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Information Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Information Security

Information Security
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Security in Oxfordshire

Information 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 Information Security within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Banbury - 4 £90,000 -
Wallingford - 3 £50,000 -
Abingdon - 1 - - 2
Information Security
South East

Information 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 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) dbt
2 1 (8.33%) Fivetran
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Airbyte
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Head of Information
1 8 (66.67%) Head of Information Security
1 8 (66.67%) Head of IT
1 8 (66.67%) Head of IT Security
1 8 (66.67%) Head of Security
2 3 (25.00%) Information Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Information Security Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Snowpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) AI
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (8.33%) CRM
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (8.33%) Data Sharing
3 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (8.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (8.33%) ETL
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CISM
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft