OSCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 439 497
Rank change year-on-year +69 +58 -84
Contract jobs citing OSCP 15 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.072% 0.026%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.22% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 4
10th Percentile - - £414
25th Percentile £600 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £486 £524
Median % change year-on-year +33.74% -7.21% +3.46%
75th Percentile - £570 £600
90th Percentile £661 £575 £668
UK median daily rate £613 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +11.36% - +10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,560 7,762 8,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.83% 33.02% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 5,203 5,219
10th Percentile £269 £286 £254
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 648 525
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.41
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +59.18% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OSCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OSCP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OSCP in the UK excluding London

OSCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North of England +28 9 £650 +33.74% 3
South West - 9 £638 - 7
Yorkshire +30 4 £650 - 1
North West +18 3 - - 2
Scotland - 3 - - 1
North East - 2 £625 -
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UK

OSCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Penetration Tester
1 8 (53.33%) Tester
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Ethical Hacker
2 3 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Applications Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Operational Technology
2 7 (46.67%) Mobile App
3 3 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (20.00%) SCADA
4 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Penetration Testing
2 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (60.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 9 (60.00%) Red Team
4 7 (46.67%) Application Security
4 7 (46.67%) Offensive Security
5 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (20.00%) Purple Team
7 3 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
8 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
9 1 (6.67%) Cyber Intelligence
9 1 (6.67%) DevOps
9 1 (6.67%) Regulatory Compliance
9 1 (6.67%) Security Operations
9 1 (6.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) C++
3 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) Ruby
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) CREST Certified
3 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (40.00%) CEH
4 6 (40.00%) GIAC
4 6 (40.00%) GPEN
5 3 (20.00%) CCNA
5 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) NIST
2 4 (26.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform