OSCP Contracts in England

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 639 755
Rank change year-on-year +173 +116 -155
Contract jobs citing OSCP 82 29 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.057% 0.035%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 0.21% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 11
10th Percentile £458 £463 £475
25th Percentile £500 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £548
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.72% +4.29%
75th Percentile £650 £768 £572
90th Percentile £773 £790 £575
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +7.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

OSCP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,681 14,075 15,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.38% 27.75% 21.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,190 9,418 10,039
10th Percentile £300 £325 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £632
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.84% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 766 695
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.56 £55.80
90th Percentile £76.47 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.31% +31.25% +7.42%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OSCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OSCP in England

OSCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSCP in England.

Daily rate trend for OSCP in England

OSCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSCP in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSCP in England

OSCP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSCP within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
South East +58 47 - - 5
London +108 20 £500 -31.03% 12
North of England +40 9 £650 +30.00%
South West - 7 £600 - 5
Yorkshire +30 4 £650 -
North West +18 3 - -
North East - 2 £625 -
OSCP
UK

OSCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 47 (57.32%) IaaS
1 47 (57.32%) PaaS
1 47 (57.32%) SaaS
2 6 (7.32%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (57.32%) 5G
1 47 (57.32%) Broadband
2 12 (14.63%) Wireless
3 1 (1.22%) DHCP
3 1 (1.22%) DNS
3 1 (1.22%) FTP
3 1 (1.22%) HTTP
3 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.22%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.22%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Burp Suite
General
1 47 (57.32%) Law
1 47 (57.32%) Organisational Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.88%) Legal
5 2 (2.44%) Banking
5 2 (2.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 62 (75.61%) Penetration Tester
1 62 (75.61%) Tester
2 47 (57.32%) Security Penetration Tester
2 47 (57.32%) Security Specialist
2 47 (57.32%) Security Tester
2 47 (57.32%) Testing Specialist
3 7 (8.54%) Analyst
3 7 (8.54%) Security Analyst
4 6 (7.32%) Ethical Hacker
5 4 (4.88%) Consultant
5 4 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (2.44%) Applications Tester
6 2 (2.44%) Junior
6 2 (2.44%) Junior Consultant
6 2 (2.44%) Security Engineer
7 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 1 (1.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (1.22%) Incident Engineer
7 1 (1.22%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (1.22%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (57.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (74.39%) Mobile App
2 7 (8.54%) Cyber Defence
2 7 (8.54%) Operational Technology
3 6 (7.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 6 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (4.88%) IoT
5 3 (3.66%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.22%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.22%) SCADA
7 1 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.95%) Linux
2 12 (14.63%) Windows
3 6 (7.32%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (87.80%) Penetration Testing
2 69 (84.15%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (73.17%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 56 (68.29%) Application Security
5 55 (67.07%) OWASP
6 49 (59.76%) Security Testing
7 47 (57.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (20.73%) Red Team
9 15 (18.29%) Offensive Security
10 14 (17.07%) Ethical Hacking
11 10 (12.20%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 9 (10.98%) Threat Intelligence
13 8 (9.76%) Agile
13 8 (9.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 7 (8.54%) Social Engineering
15 6 (7.32%) Cloud Security
15 6 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (7.32%) Threat Modelling
16 5 (6.10%) Purple Team
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) Python
2 8 (9.76%) C++
3 6 (7.32%) C#
3 6 (7.32%) Go
3 6 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.66%) Perl
5 2 (2.44%) C
5 2 (2.44%) Java
5 2 (2.44%) Ruby
5 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (79.27%) CREST Certified
2 62 (75.61%) GIAC
3 61 (74.39%) Security Cleared
4 57 (69.51%) GPEN
5 48 (58.54%) SANS
6 11 (13.41%) SC Cleared
7 10 (12.20%) CISSP
8 9 (10.98%) CEH
9 7 (8.54%) CHECK Team Leader
9 7 (8.54%) GREM
10 6 (7.32%) GSEC
11 3 (3.66%) CCNA
11 3 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (2.44%) Degree
12 2 (2.44%) ECSA
12 2 (2.44%) OSCE
12 2 (2.44%) OSWP
13 1 (1.22%) GAWN
13 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (67.07%) PCI DSS
2 47 (57.32%) GDPR
2 47 (57.32%) NCSC
3 13 (15.85%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (7.32%) Terraform
2 1 (1.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (1.22%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 47 (57.32%) Virgin Media
2 2 (2.44%) Cisco
2 2 (2.44%) Cybereason
3 1 (1.22%) Intel
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.22%) SAP