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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 80 61
Rank change year-on-year +42 -19 +42
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 24 6 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 3.82% 0.55% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 0.66% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 20 2 9
10th Percentile - £45,500 £40,400
25th Percentile £39,750 £48,125 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% -15.38% +56.63%
75th Percentile £56,055 £60,625 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £76,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

All Process and 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 517 908 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 82.19% 83.38% 96.75%
Number of salaries quoted 388 476 527
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £48,500 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.78% +2.28% -

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 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
Woodstock - 10 £41,500 -
Oxford +15 6 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Wallingford - 2 £50,205 - 2
Abingdon - 1 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (41.67%) Exchange Server 2013
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) Azure
2 15 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) Fivetran
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) Firewall
1 13 (54.17%) SAN
2 10 (41.67%) LAN
2 10 (41.67%) VLAN
2 10 (41.67%) WAN
2 10 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Airbyte
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
1 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 20 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Law
2 2 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 10 (41.67%) 3rd Line Support Technician
1 10 (41.67%) Support Technician
2 4 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) IT Support
3 3 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Head of Compliance
4 2 (8.33%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.33%) Information Security Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Information Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Replication
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Windows
1 13 (54.17%) Windows Server
2 3 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 3 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
1 13 (54.17%) ITIL
1 13 (54.17%) Knowledge Transfer
2 11 (45.83%) Migration
3 10 (41.67%) Business Continuity
4 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.67%) Security Operations
6 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Analytics
7 2 (8.33%) Architecture Governance
7 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
7 2 (8.33%) Data Science
7 2 (8.33%) Design Patterns
7 2 (8.33%) Due Diligence
7 2 (8.33%) Internal Audit
7 2 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (8.33%) SABSA
7 2 (8.33%) SDLC
7 2 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Python
1 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) CISM
1 3 (12.50%) CISSP
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
2 2 (8.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (8.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 2 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 16 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (54.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (16.67%) GRC
4 3 (12.50%) GDPR
4 3 (12.50%) NIST
5 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
5 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (54.17%) Hyper-V
1 13 (54.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft Intune
1 13 (54.17%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) VMware
3 10 (41.67%) arcserve
4 3 (12.50%) Apple
4 3 (12.50%) Sophos