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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 71 49
Rank change year-on-year +27 -22 +39
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 14 7 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 1.94% 0.87% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 1.01% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 14
10th Percentile - - £41,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £61,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +22.55% +22.89%
75th Percentile £65,352 £63,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £71,500 - £74,500
South East median annual salary £56,750 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +0.84% -0.83%

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 517 695 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 71.81% 86.77% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 361 339 519
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,450 £35,800
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,947 £65,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +9.43% -3.64%

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 8 January 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 8 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 +11 6 £70,000 +12.00% 3
Woodstock - 4 £41,500 -
Wallingford - 3 £50,000 -
Abingdon - 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 4 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (7.14%) Fivetran
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) LAN
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
1 4 (28.57%) VLAN
1 4 (28.57%) WAN
1 4 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Airbyte
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
1 4 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Technician
1 4 (28.57%) Support Technician
2 3 (21.43%) Information Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Information Security Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Security Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Information Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Compliance
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 2 (14.29%) Information Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Information Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
2 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 2 (14.29%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) Due Diligence
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security Management
4 2 (14.29%) Internal Audit
4 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Security Management
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CISM
1 3 (21.43%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) DBS Check
2 2 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 2 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (28.57%) GRC
3 3 (21.43%) GDPR
3 3 (21.43%) NIST
4 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) arcserve
2 4 (28.57%) VMware