OSCP Contract Job Trends in Central London

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 134 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing OSCP 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.076% 0.15% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.29% 0.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £517 £434 -
25th Percentile £523 £447 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.44% - -
75th Percentile £648 £522 -
90th Percentile £670 £531 -
London median daily rate £800 £650 £425
% change year-on-year +23.08% +52.94% -29.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

OSCP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 682 509 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.90% 24.84% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 342 335
10th Percentile £405 £350 £368
25th Percentile £463 £462 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -0.45% +0.45%
75th Percentile £642 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £749 £775
London median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £19.47 £25.04 £20.22
25th Percentile £29.00 £26.57 £20.29
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.48 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.19% +43.67% +15.91%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.96 £27.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £65.57 £35.38
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.49
% change year-on-year +114.71% -5.04% -50.95%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OSCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

OSCP job vacancy trend in Central London

OSCP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OSCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OSCP

OSCP
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -11 2 £573 +17.44% 4
OSCP
London

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CSOC
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CHECK Team Leader
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (50.00%) IISP
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (50.00%) COBIT
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS